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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
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End, Wanted, Almost

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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Funny, Love, Sound

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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Design, Trying, Mistake

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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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Learning, Yourself, Miss

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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Job, Made, Fact

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.
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Experience, Human, Others

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.
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Why, Another, Here

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
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Beautiful, Enough, Garden

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
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Dreams, Wife, Idiot

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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Angry, Bad, Made

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
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Family, Small, Bird

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
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Money, Integrity, Real

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
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Nothing, Happen, After

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
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May, Gone, Ended

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
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Long, Mean, May

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
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Problem, Repeat, Cope

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
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Cannot, Impossible, Wrong

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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Learning, Yourself, Miss

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
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Problems, Mistake, Solve

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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Job, Made, Getting

Life is wasted on the living.
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Life, Living, Wasted

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
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If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
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Give, Tell, Few

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
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Nice, Rain, Judge

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: March 11, 1952

Died: May 11, 2001

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