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Think before you pluck. Irresponsible plucking costs lives.
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It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smart-ass.
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"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm...
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It's not every day a Galactic President gets dumped out of an air lock by his own head.
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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
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"So much time," it groaned, "oh so much time. And pain as well, so much of that, and so much time to suffer it in too. One or the other on its own I could probably manage. It's the two together that really get me down."
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2/117216490532873957
I used this quote on the acknowledgement page of my PhD dissertation, and I tampered with BibTeX so that the citation appeared at number 42. I thought it made it into the final copy, but apparently it didn’t.
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"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen..." and so on.
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"I leaped out of a high-rise office window."
This cheered Arthur up. "Oh!" he said. "Why don't you do it again?"
"I did."
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"You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number."
"Er, five," said the mattress.
"Wrong," said Marvin. "You see?"
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"The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago," continued Marvin. ..."And that was with a coffee machine."
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
You can’t help but try and follow an animal’s thought processes, and you can’t help, when faced with an animal like a three ton rhinoceros with nasal passages bigger than its brain, but fail.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Last Chance to See, ch. 3 (1990) [with Mark Carwardine]More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/30101/
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📚🌲 In unserem literarischen Adventskalender steckt heute ein Reisebericht zu bedrohten Tierarten der Welt. Douglas Adams reiste dafür nicht durch die Galaxis, sondern u. a. nach Neuseeland, Madagaskar, China.
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#7books that made a difference to me in no particular order.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by #DouglasAdams
Future Shock by #AlvinToffler
Understanding Media by #MarshallMcLuhan
Understanding Comics by #ScottMcCloud
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by #LewisCarroll
The World Book Encyclopedia (some early 1970s edition) by various
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Hashtags for today. Some favourite #books and #authors
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#neilgaiman
#jamesherbert
#angelacarter
#richardlaymon
#clivebarker
#lewiscarroll
#piersanthony
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the Bible – God’s guide for life #1 Introduction
INTRODUCTION
The American Bill Bryson wrote a book about his experiences in Britain called Notes from a Small Island. In it he describes an the English approach to travel:
Welcome to Shepton Mallet sign (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
If you mention in a pub that you intend to drive from, say, Surrey to Cornwall… your companions will puff their cheeks, look knowingly at each other, and blow out air as if to say, ‘Well, now that’s a bit of a tall order,’ and then they’ll launch into a lively and protracted discussion of whether it’s better to take the A30 to Stockbridge and then the A303 to Illchester or the A361 to Glastonbury via Shepton Mallet. Within minutes the conversation will plunge off into a level of detail that leaves you as a foreigner, swivelling your head in quiet wonderment.
‘You know that lay-by outside Warminster, the one with the grit box with the broken handle?’ one of them will say. You know, just past the turnoff for Little Puking but before the B6029 mini-roundabout. By the dead sycamore.’
At this point, you find you are the only person in the group not nodding vigorously.
This sounds rather like life to me – lots of people telling you the way to go but your head swivels and you find you are “not nodding vigorously”. The difference is that the people in Bryson’s ‘local’ actually knew the way, the route was clear in their minds. And, of course, life is not like that. I see the equivalent of cars driving around in circles, ending up in cul-de-sacs and going the wrong way up a one-way street all the time. Why?
Market Cross Shepton Mallet – “Milestone” Close up of the plaque which states the miles to various destinations from Shepton Mallet. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Let’s go somewhere far bigger than Britain to think about this. One of the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams says at the beginning
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.”
The next page reads:
“There is another theory which states that this has already happened”
In other words you can’t make sense of things because it’s all a meaningless jumble anyway. Humanly speaking, it seems everything is confusion. But it need not be. Instead of a guide to the galaxy we need a guide to life. And there is one, one that is increasingly being ignored but has proved to be a sure handbook for tens thousands, if not millions, of people for centuries.
A good guide will not only tell you the way to your destination, but give advice, point out useful things along the way, tell you how to avoid problems and also tell you what to do if you get into trouble. The guide we will be looking at in this seminar series is all this and more. Above all a guide must be reliable. How do we know this ’Guide to Life’ is reliable? Because it is the handbook written by the giver of life. The Bible is the Maker’s Handbook.
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You may find more about the Guide for life
- What Are You Seeking?
- Lovers of God, seekers and lovers of truth
- To create a great journey
- Bible a guide – Bijbel als gids
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