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The last ever dolphin message ...

The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish.

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What do you get if you multipl...

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?' 'Six by nine. Forty two.' 'That's it. That's all there is.' 'I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe

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Yes. They are the words that f...

Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do.' The sign read: 'Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion.' 'It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I

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There are some oddities in the...

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.

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So what do we do if we get bit...

So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked. He looked at me as if I were stupid. 'You die, of course. That's what deadly means.

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For a moment he felt good abou...

For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and satisfied, drove on into the night.

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Life! Don't talk to me about l...

Life! Don't talk to me about life!

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'These things will become clea...

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

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I say what it occurs to me to ...

I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.

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'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter...

'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'

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The most misleading assumption...

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

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Lord, lord, lord. Protect me ...

Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

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The invention of the scientifi...

The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around us that there is, and it rests on the premise that any idea is there to be attacked. If it withstands the attack then it lives to fight another day and if it doesn't withstand the attack then down it goes. Religion doesn't seem to work like that.

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We are stuck with technology w...

We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.

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Humans think they are smarter ...

Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.

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God is no longer an explanatio...

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

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In fact, a very similar phrase...

In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an explosive condition, which was 'nonlinear, catastrophic structural exasperation,' or to put it another way--as a junior cabinet minister did on television the following night in a phrase which was to haunt the rest of his career--the check-in desk had just got 'fundamentally fed up with being where it was.

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People will then often say, 'B...

People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I've been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.)

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2,000 years ago one man got na...

2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.

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Six pints of bitter, said Ford...

Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....