One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father … - Douglas Adams

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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

Douglas Adams

One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broadminded and well-adjusted family can't cope with.

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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 look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.

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George Orwell

As Gove knows. . . . 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess. '

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A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

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Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

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