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.
reunited with his deceased relatives led on to the thought that they might
just feel the same way about him and, what's more, be able to do something
about helping to postpone this reunion.
-- Douglas Adams
-- 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
of dangerous situations -- I work for a federal task force doing a survey on
@ -4030,6 +4030,7 @@ a dozen other items that he may have "lost". After all, any man who can
hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, 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"
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The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on
the subject of towels.
@ -4040,6 +4041,7 @@ of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches
of Santraginus V ... use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River
Moth; wave your towel in emergencies, and, of course, dry yourself off
with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
-- 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.
After a mile or so, the bride's mount cantered under a low tree and a
@ -5615,8 +5617,8 @@ not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery.
sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all. In other
words... their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their
superficial design flaws.
-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, on the products
of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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
existence of God in any recognizable sense continuous with the great
@ -10738,8 +10740,9 @@ white children begin with a small separation but increase it during
growth -- the rising belly button as a mark of progress.
-- S. J. Gould, "Racism and Recapitulation"
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"...and the fully armed nuclear warheads, are, of course, merely a
"... and the fully armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a
courtesy detail."
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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And the silence came surging softly backwards
When the plunging hooves were gone...
@ -12867,7 +12870,7 @@ absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that
time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in
time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend
on the observer's movement in restaurants.
-- Douglas Adams
-- Douglas Adams, "Life, The Universe and Everything"
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bit, n:
A unit of measure applied to color. Twenty-four-bit color
@ -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
off with dinner at Milliway's, the restaurant at the end of the universe.
-- 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.
-- Ronald Reagan
@ -30144,7 +30148,7 @@ to Grandmother's condo.
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It looked like something resembling white marble, which was
probably what it was: something resembling white marble.
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
-- 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.
-- Don Reed
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"Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."
-- Marvin, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
-- Marvin, from
Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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Life may have no meaning, or, even worse,
it may have a meaning of which you disapprove.
@ -33364,7 +33369,7 @@ he has achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- while
all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good
time. But, conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were
far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons.
-- D. Adams, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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Man has made his bedlam; let him lie in it.
-- Fred Allen
@ -43875,7 +43880,7 @@ Sorry, no fortune this time.
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
drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
-- Joseph Joubert
@ -47185,7 +47190,7 @@ Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For
instance, the first phase is characterized by the question "How can we
eat?" the second by "Why do we eat?" and the third by "Where shall we
have lunch?".
-- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
-- 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
are Retribution, Anticipation, and Diplomacy. Thus:
@ -49432,7 +49437,7 @@ the scientific world by storm. So many mathematical conferences got held
in such good restaurants that many of the finest minds of a generation
died of obesity and heart failure, and the science of mathematics was put
back by years.
-- Douglas Adams
-- 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
largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper,
which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of
paper that were unhappy.
-- Douglas Adams
-- 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
something child-like.
@ -52566,7 +52571,7 @@ Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Berlioz
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Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
-- 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.
-- Otto von Bismarck
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With a rubber duck, one's never alone.
-- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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With all the fancy scientists in the world,
why can't they just once build a nuclear balm.