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A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

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Life, Regret, Mistake

Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.203, Pan Macmillan

It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

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Love, Life, Relationship

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

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Inspirational, Life, Atheist

Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.87, Pan Macmillan

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

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Life, Retirement, Genius

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

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Life, Impossible, Logic

Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

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Life, Positive, Travel

Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

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Life, Tired, Thinking

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.125, Pan Macmillan

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

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Life, Inspiring, Dream

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!

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Life, Deep Thought, Answers

The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right, thought you know that it probably will not be.

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Life, Bird, Hug

"Last Chance To See".

The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around us that there is, and it rests on the premise that any idea is there to be attacked. If it withstands the attack then it lives to fight another day and if it doesn't withstand the attack then down it goes. Religion doesn't seem to work like that.

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Life, Powerful, Hard Work