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"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."
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"You are looking at the world from your window, that's good, but there is something missing here, something very big: You must also look at your window from the world to see yourself!"
"The past is far behind. If you still want to look at it, you will painfully stretch your neck muscles. Don't live in the past, leave the past, but learn from it."
"This earth in which we are living is not our everlasting home."
"Don't predict the condition of the entire day by the state of the morning. You don't judge a book by its cover. A cloudy morning is no guarantee for a rainy day!"
"Prayer has to be fervent, intensive, passionate and from the heart."
"If we start to complain, destruction is right at our door."
"Every eye makes its own perception."
"It is better to dwell on the beautiful things in life than the negative."
"There is a different world on the other side of your present attitude."
"Behind your view there are other views; to see them, you must first visit the view you see!"
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"Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the battle of 1066?' or 'How do these seatbelts work that go tight when you slam the brakes on, Daddy?' The answers are easy and are, respectively, 'Seven-thirty in the evening,' 'Ten-fifteen in the morning,' and 'Don't ask stupid questions."
"So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die.""Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried."What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round."No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all."
"ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough-see point one."
"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space, listen..."
"The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79."
"But the plans were on display."On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."That's the display department."With a flashlight."Ah, well, the lights had probably gone."So had the stairs."But look, you found the notice, didn't you?"Yes, said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard."
"Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means."
"Gilks sighed. 'You're a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that,' he said, 'but you make the samemistake a lot of clever people do of thinking everyone else is stupid."
"Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully."
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