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There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
I too will go, remembering what I said to you, when any land, the first to which we came seemed that we sought, and set your hearts aflame, and all seemed won to you: but still I think, perchance years hence, the fount of life to drink, unless by some ill chance I first am slain. But boundless risk must pay for boundless gain.
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Douglas Adams, fully Douglas Noel Adams
The room was much as he had left it, festeringly untidy, though the effect was muted a little by a thick layer of dust. Half-read books and magazines nestled among piles of half-used towels. Half-pairs of socks reclined in half-drunk cups of coffee. What once had been a half-eaten sandwich had now half-turned into something that Arthur didn’t entirely want to know about. Bung a fork of lightning through this lot, he thought to himself, and you’d start the evolution of life off all over again.
Douglas Adams, fully Douglas Noel Adams
What are you after? Well, said Zaphod airily, It's partly the curiosity, partly a sense of adventure, but mostly I think it's the fame and the money.
White House pressrooms (no matter which political party is in charge) toss out a huge dump of bad news around 5:00 PM every Friday. Which as far as I can tell is at least five hours after the media corps has clocked out for a three-martini lunch with no intention of coming back to work until Monday.
The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their dispositions than their fortunes.
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We have more strength than will; and it is often merely for an excuse we say things are impossible.
If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!
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The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
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We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.
The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.
The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language.
O my good lord, At many times I brought in my accounts, Laid them before you. You would throw them off And say you found them in mine honesty.
O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side! Measure for Measure, Act iii, Scene 2
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