“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal, is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.” — Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
Tag: Douglas Adams
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“A beach house isn’t just real estate. It’s a state of mind.” — Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
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“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.” — Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
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“Even light, which travels so fast that it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.” — Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” — Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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“Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.” — Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
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“It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else’s point of view without the proper training.” — Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
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“How can I tell that the past isn’t a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?” — Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.” — Douglas Adams, Life, The Universe and Everything
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“The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.” — Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless