Canonify, correct, and add citations related to Douglas Adams' work.
Correct a quotation from Hitchhiker's.
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@ -3106,7 +3106,7 @@ to be avoided than harped upon.
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reunited with his deceased relatives led on to the thought that they might
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just feel the same way about him and, what's more, be able to do something
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about helping to postpone this reunion.
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-- Douglas Adams
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-- Douglas Adams, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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"Oh sure, this costume may look silly, but it lets me get in and out
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of dangerous situations -- I work for a federal task force doing a survey on
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@ -4030,6 +4030,7 @@ a dozen other items that he may have "lost". After all, any man who can
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hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, struggle against terrible odds,
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win through and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be
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reckoned with.
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-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on
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the subject of towels.
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@ -4040,6 +4041,7 @@ of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches
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of Santraginus V ... use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River
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Moth; wave your towel in emergencies, and, of course, dry yourself off
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with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
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-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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The honeymooning couple agreed it was a fine day for horseback riding.
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After a mile or so, the bride's mount cantered under a low tree and a
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@ -5615,8 +5617,8 @@ not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery.
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sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all. In other
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words... their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their
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superficial design flaws.
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-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, on the products
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of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
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-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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on the products of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
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... it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the
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existence of God in any recognizable sense continuous with the great
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@ -10738,8 +10740,9 @@ white children begin with a small separation but increase it during
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growth -- the rising belly button as a mark of progress.
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-- S. J. Gould, "Racism and Recapitulation"
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"...and the fully armed nuclear warheads, are, of course, merely a
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"... and the fully armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a
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courtesy detail."
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-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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And the silence came surging softly backwards
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When the plunging hooves were gone...
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@ -12867,7 +12870,7 @@ absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that
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time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in
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time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend
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on the observer's movement in restaurants.
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-- Douglas Adams
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-- Douglas Adams, "Life, The Universe and Everything"
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bit, n:
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A unit of measure applied to color. Twenty-four-bit color
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@ -27930,6 +27933,7 @@ Though living on burrowed time.
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If you've done six impossible things before breakfast, why not round it
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off with dinner at Milliway's, the restaurant at the end of the universe.
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-- Douglas Adams, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.
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-- Ronald Reagan
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@ -30144,7 +30148,7 @@ to Grandmother's condo.
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It looked like something resembling white marble, which was
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probably what it was: something resembling white marble.
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-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
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-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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It looks like blind screaming hedonism won out.
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@ -32409,7 +32413,8 @@ Life, like beer, is merely borrowed.
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-- Don Reed
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"Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."
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-- Marvin, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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-- Marvin, from
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Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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Life may have no meaning, or, even worse,
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it may have a meaning of which you disapprove.
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@ -33364,7 +33369,7 @@ he has achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- while
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all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good
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time. But, conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were
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far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons.
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-- D. Adams, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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Man has made his bedlam; let him lie in it.
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-- Fred Allen
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@ -43875,7 +43880,7 @@ Sorry, no fortune this time.
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly
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big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the
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drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
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-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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-- Joseph Joubert
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@ -47185,7 +47190,7 @@ Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For
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instance, the first phase is characterized by the question "How can we
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eat?" the second by "Why do we eat?" and the third by "Where shall we
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have lunch?".
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-- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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-- Douglas Adams, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
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The history of warfare is similarly subdivided, although here the phases
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are Retribution, Anticipation, and Diplomacy. Thus:
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@ -49432,7 +49437,7 @@ the scientific world by storm. So many mathematical conferences got held
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in such good restaurants that many of the finest minds of a generation
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died of obesity and heart failure, and the science of mathematics was put
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back by years.
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-- Douglas Adams
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-- Douglas Adams, "Life, The Universe and Everything"
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The state law of Pennsylvania prohibits singing in the bathtub.
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@ -52185,7 +52190,7 @@ solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were
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largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper,
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which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of
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paper that were unhappy.
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-- Douglas Adams
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-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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This process can check if this value is zero, and if it is, it does
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something child-like.
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@ -52566,7 +52571,7 @@ Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
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-- Hector Berlioz
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Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
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-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.
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@ -58059,7 +58064,7 @@ try to be a fraud and a half.
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-- Otto von Bismarck
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With a rubber duck, one's never alone.
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-- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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With all the fancy scientists in the world,
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why can't they just once build a nuclear balm.
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