The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like … - Douglas Adams

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I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.

Douglas Adams

The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing. . . ' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.

Argument, Distant, Men, Minutes, Storm, Twenties

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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?

Said, Today, World, Wrong

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

Actually, Honest, Problem, Quite, Think, Thinking

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

Believe, Except, Paradox, Read, Wells

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

Born, Intervening, People, Want, Watches, Wearing

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Humour very often consists of shrewd perceptions about people. It's usually fun at someone's expense. Nowadays if you're funny at anybody's expense they run to the UN and say, "I must have an ombudsman to protect me. " You hardly dare have a shrewd perception about anybody.

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Eric Thomas

Understand the value of work and know that you get out of life what you earn. Some things have to be taken, its not given to you, they are not handing out multimillion dollar contracts or degrees, you have to use your brain!

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Roy Oswalt

I grew up in a small town where you know everyone,. . I've been told all my life that I come from too small a town to compete with some of the guys that competed in a higher level growing up. And that kind of drove me through college and drove me in the minor leagues, because I got to face all those big 5- A [school district] guys in the minors.

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