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"There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises."

"But you can't just leave it at that!" said Anathema, pushing forward. "Think of all things you could do! Good things."Like what?" said Adam suspiciously."Well... you could bring all the whales back, to start with."He put his head on one side. "An' that'd stop people killing them?"She hesitated. It would have been nice to say yes."An' if people do start killing 'em, what would you ask me to do about 'em?" said Adam. "No. I reckon I'm getting the hang of this now. Once I start messing around like that, there'd be no stoppin' it. Seems to me, the only sensible thing is for people to know if they kill a whale, they've got a dead whale."

"The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it."

"Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.''Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl."

"Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual."

"Tiffany jumped when she saw a balloon sail up above the trees, catch the wind, and swoop away, but it turned out to be just a balloon and not a lump of excess Brian. She could tell this because it was followed by a long scream of rage mixed with a roar of complaint: "AAaargwannawannaaaagongongonaargggaaaaBLOON! which is the traditional sound of a very small child learning that with balloons, as with life itself, it is important to know when not to let go of the string. The whole point of balloons is to teach small children this."
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"I am looked upon with suspicion. I am on the "other side.""

"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."

"As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed."

"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges."

"I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place."

"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
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