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  • #1
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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  • #2
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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  • #3
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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  • #4
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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  • #5
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
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  • #6
    Douglas Adams
    “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.

    There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor
    7875 likes

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  • #7
    Douglas Adams
    “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humour
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  • #8
    Douglas Adams
    “This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: life, sci-fi
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  • #9
    Douglas Adams
    “Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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  • #10
    Douglas Adams
    “If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: humor, science
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  • #11
    Douglas Adams
    “So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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  • #12
    Douglas Adams
    “It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
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  • #13
    Douglas Adams
    “It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: airports, humor, travel
    802 likes

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  • #14
    Douglas Adams
    “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
    tags: douglas-adams
    602 likes

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  • #15
    Douglas Adams
    “What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
    "Ask a glass of water!”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: drunk, humour, jokes
    477 likes

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  • #16
    Terry Pratchett
    “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
    tags: humor, metaphysics, physics, science
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  • #17
    Terry Pratchett
    “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
    tags: einstein, gaiman, god, humor
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  • #18
    Terry Pratchett
    “It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Mort
    tags: discworld, humor, humour, teaching
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  • #19
    Terry Pratchett
    “Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Eric
    tags: erotic, kinky, suggestive
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  • #20
    Neil Gaiman
    “An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.”
    ― Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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  • #21
    Terry Pratchett
    “This book was written using 100% recycled words.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
    tags: conservation, environmentalism, humor
    1038 likes

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  • #22
    Terry Pratchett
    “Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor
    796 likes

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  • #23
    Neil Gaiman
    “25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying 'Where is the flaming sword that was given unto thee?'
    26 And the Angel said, 'I had it here only a moment ago, I must have put it down some where, forget my own head next.'
    27 And the Lord did not ask him again.”
    ― Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
    tags: angel, god, heaven, humor
    735 likes

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  • #24
    Terry Pratchett
    “The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
    tags: humor
    697 likes

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  • #25
    Neil Gaiman
    “You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?'

    'REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX.”
    ― Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
    tags: apocalypse, death, hells-angels, humor
    701 likes

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  • #26
    Terry Pratchett
    “She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
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  • #27
    Terry Pratchett
    “Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
    tags: cats
    367 likes



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