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Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.


Douglas Alexander

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DOUGLAS TRUMBULL To shuck oysters, you'll need an oyster knife, a handy tool with a sturdy handle and a short, ri...
TOM DOUGLAS What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the wa...
DOUGLAS WILDER We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
DOUGLAS ADAMS The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
DOUGLAS ADAMS As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.
DOUGLAS HURD Lured by smooth roads onto a new turnpike, he read with surprise the rules he was handed, don't stop...
DOUGLAS WOOLF Twentyone is too old to go anywhere alone, you know that. I want to go with someone. I don't mean as...
DOUGLAS WOOLF Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
DOUGLAS ADAMS and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
DOUGLAS ADAMS I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tel...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Computers don't kill books; people do.
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to ...
SCOTT DOUGLAS I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
DOUGLAS ADAMS It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
DOUGLAS ADAMS For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins...
DOUGLAS ADAMS