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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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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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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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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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If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandonded this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

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I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

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

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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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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

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I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

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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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His study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library.

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He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.

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He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it.

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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

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

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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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Arthur hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realised there was a contradiction there and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

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