This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living … - Douglas Adams

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I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.

Douglas Adams

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

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A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

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Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?

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I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.

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Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

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Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

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Don't fight in front of the client, boys. " Catarina implored in her sweet voice," or I will knock your heads together so hard, your skulls will crack like eggs

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Toby Keith

I catch as much hell from the hard-core conservative people as I do the far left. The only difference is that the far right don't bring the hate to the table that the far left does. And that's my party. They just deal in so much hate. I mean the far left, not the Democrats, the far left really deal in hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.

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Emanuel Swedenborg

Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.

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Al Gore

The sooner we switch away from carbon-based fuel and start relying on renewable energy sources available in the United States, the sooner we will grow our economy by creating the millions of new jobs that will come from retrofitting homes and businesses, building smart grids, renewable energy systems and planting trees and all the rest. We need to create a lot of jobs that can't be outsourced.

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