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Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.
From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics- as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.
From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
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Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of
the word "Infinite".
Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some.
Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a
totally stunning size, "wow, that's big", time. Infinity is just so
big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy.
Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly
huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.
From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced.
From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus
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Life is wasted on the living.
From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.
From Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
From The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.
From The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
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If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.
From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.

"Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Having solved all the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe except for his own, three times over, [Marvin] was severely stuck for something to do, and had taken up composing short dolorous ditties of no tone, or indeed tune. The latest one was a lullaby.
Marvin droned,
Now the world has gone to bed,
Darkness won't engulf my head,
I can see in infrared,
How I hate the night.
He paused to gather the artistic and emotional strength to tackle the next verse.
Now I lay me down to sleep,
Try to count electric sheep,
Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
How I hate the night.
From Life, the Universe and Everything
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This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
From The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.
From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics- as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.
From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
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Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of
the word "Infinite".
Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some.
Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a
totally stunning size, "wow, that's big", time. Infinity is just so
big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy.
Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly
huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.
From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced.
From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus
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Life is wasted on the living.
From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.
From Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
From The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.
From The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
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If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.
From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.

"Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Having solved all the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe except for his own, three times over, [Marvin] was severely stuck for something to do, and had taken up composing short dolorous ditties of no tone, or indeed tune. The latest one was a lullaby.
Marvin droned,
Now the world has gone to bed,
Darkness won't engulf my head,
I can see in infrared,
How I hate the night.
He paused to gather the artistic and emotional strength to tackle the next verse.
Now I lay me down to sleep,
Try to count electric sheep,
Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
How I hate the night.
From Life, the Universe and Everything
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This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
From The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.
From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics- as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.
From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
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Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of
the word "Infinite".
Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some.
Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a
totally stunning size, "wow, that's big", time. Infinity is just so
big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy.
Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly
huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.
From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced.
From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus
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Life is wasted on the living.
From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.
From Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
From The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.
From The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
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If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.
From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.

"Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Having solved all the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe except for his own, three times over, [Marvin] was severely stuck for something to do, and had taken up composing short dolorous ditties of no tone, or indeed tune. The latest one was a lullaby.
Marvin droned,
Now the world has gone to bed,
Darkness won't engulf my head,
I can see in infrared,
How I hate the night.
He paused to gather the artistic and emotional strength to tackle the next verse.
Now I lay me down to sleep,
Try to count electric sheep,
Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
How I hate the night.
From Life, the Universe and Everything
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This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
From The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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