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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something comp...  
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on n...  
Arthur hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realis...  
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.  
For a moment, nothing happened.Then, after a second or so, nothing con...  
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wo...  
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized t...   Religion
He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his...  
He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomforta...  
His study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a publ...  
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn fro...   Experience
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round ...  
I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.  
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.  
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended u...  
I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I t...  
I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.  
If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mo...  
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to c...  
If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a ...  
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of peop...  
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to be...   Religion
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with po...  
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent bli...  
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people...  
Life is wasted on the living.   Life
Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few p...  
Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natur...  
One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my...  
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggling...  
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic ...  
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from...  
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.  
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbab...  
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground an...  
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing t...  
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possi...  
The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a lo...  
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.  
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly w...  
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.  
Time is bunk.  
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or ...  
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!  
We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can...  
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.