...from Bertrand Russell"War does not determine who is right. Only who is left."
"The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible,
horrible."
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence"
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...from The Little Prince
"What makes the desert beautiful," says the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well."
"Only children know what they are looking for"
"One never ought to listen to them," he confided to me, "One should never listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance."
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"For the rain it raineth every day." Feste, Twelfth Night
...from Douglas Adams(and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-read the book, it's funny!)"In the beginning the Universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
"There is a theory which states that if anybody ever 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."
"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realised there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
[Ford Prefect:] "Why, what did she tell you?"
[Arthur:] "I don't know, I didn't listen."
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
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DON'T PANIC." - Words inscribed in large, friendly letters on front cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide
"Curiously enough, the dolphins had long known of the impending destruction of the planet Earth and had made many attempts to alert mankind of the danger; but most of their communications were misinterpreted as amusing attempts to punch footballs or whistle for tidbits, so they eventually gave up and left the Earth by their own means shortly before the Vogons arrived."
"The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a truly remarkable book. It is the most remarkable, certainly the most successful, book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. More popular than the
Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than
Fifty Three Things to Do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters -
Where God Went Wrong,
Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes, and
Who is this God Person Anyway?"
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."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that You exist, and so therefore, by Your own arguments, You don't. QED"
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
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haiyar there's just too many quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! SUPER FUNNY. and oh, i love the part about the spermwhale coming into existance. hilarious. it's one of the few books that i can just laugh out loud while reading. makes me go on an endorphin high. but too much can render your brain atrophy. hahahahahaha.
ooo! gossip! today i saw someone. hahaha. and he's with a girl! ok no biggie, but the impt thing is, she's chio! nice dress sense too! goodness. i'd probably jio her too if i were a guy(disregarding character traits for now and just acting on testosterone urges that is). ok i hope they dont read my blog heh.
so long and thanks for all the fish!
