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How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

— Douglas Adams The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

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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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