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- 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 chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
- Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
- Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
- Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940)
- Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
- Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
- He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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