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Any man that can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

— Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978)

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If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

You made us what you would not dare to be yourselves. Yet you will not acknowledge us.

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The kid was deliberately and maliciously watching television at him.

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Thor was the God of Thunder and, frankly, acted like it.

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It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport."

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