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DOUGLAS ADAMS To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The seeker-friendly approach to religion can be to make needs meet
SUNDAY ADELAJA I suggested in my last sermon that if Oolon Colluphid had tracked down the "God" who had left a mess...
ANDREW RILSTONE To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the f...
PIERS ANTHONY Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Judge Bradfield did not intend to injure Mr. Adams or place him in fear of a battery.
BRIAN EINHORN Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read t...
PIERS ANTHONY At that moment the dull sound of a rumbling crash from outside filtered through the low murmur of th...
DOUGLAS ADAMS To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?
ALBERT EINSTEIN This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it wer...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at i...
MITCH KAPOR Arthur lay in startled stillness on the acceleration couch. He wasn't certain whether he had just go...
DOUGLAS ADAMS It's a nice place to come for a first meet. It was a good meet.
CHARLES SCHAFER The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi...
C. JOYBELL C. A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe.
RITA RUDNER It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
IAN RUSH There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marria...
JOHN LYLY There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marr...
MARTIN LUTHER There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marria...
MARTIN LUTHER You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opp...
RUPERT MURDOCH Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
NORTON JUSTER Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
MICHAEL POLLAN The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway
MICHAEL POLLAN A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.
SAMUEL NIGER Gill ran a good race. That's very good for him to place in this meet.
BRAD BEVIS The sport of climbing is very social and egalitarian. You shouldn't feel intimidated at going to a c...
LINDA MCMILLAN A good place can always be found in a place you think there is pain.
AULIQ ICE Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again...
RICHARD BACH Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting agai...
RICHARD BACH I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS All right," said Ford. "How would you react if I said that I'm not from Guildford at all, but from a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists...
BETH DITTO Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting a...
RICHARD BACH Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.
PETER KREEFT We're at a good place at this point halfway through the meet. We're feeling really good going into t...
DIANE JARVIS Playing Western Mennonite at our place is an advantage. They're a good basketball team. But we'll be...
CLIFF TONEY 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON In five or six days, I can meet more interesting people here than any place I know,
NEWT GINGRICH To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN Be good, kind, and friendly to the receptionist. She's had a hard day.
REBECCA PIDGEON The Women's Connection is a welcoming place. We're open to anything here. They can come here and mee...
JENNY BRADY You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR [Ben Adams, founder and director of the program, was pleased with the turnout.] We estimated 1,000 p...
BEN ADAMS The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of dram...
HANIEL LONG But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who...
A.A. MILNE Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA It's a good place for singles to find fellowship. It's also a nice place to meet singles -- nice Chr...
MARY NICHOLS We will be approaching it as how we approached the other games. A team with a Jimmy Adams and a Rola...
DELROY MORGAN We're going to be a virtual network of companies existing primarily in cyberspace.
AMY MARTIN San Sebastian is a very friendly festival, ... a place where the distance between directors and the ...
MIKEL OLACIREGUI The good people in history are never remembered. The people that do get remembered are the ones who ...
ROBERT ADAMS Cyberspace as a mode of being will never go away. We live in cyberspace.
JAMES GLEICK A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can ...
A.L. KENNEDY Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always ...
GERTRUDE STEIN Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home
JODI PICOULT The image of such a high- profile initiative is an effective platform to demonstrate that the region...
BIC MANAGING DIRECTOR MARTIN WHITAKER We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.
ROBERT DARNTON Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS My father-in-law, Kirk Douglas, is going to be my research engine,
LANA TURNER Engineering is a good place to be.
WILLIAM DAVIS There's always a friendly rivalry between the employees here that went to one school or the other. A...
CHAD SANDERS In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
JOHN PERRY BARLOW In Cyberspace, the 1st Amendment is a local ordinance.
JOHN PERRY BARLOW In Cyberspace, the 1st Amendment is a local ordinance
JOHN PERRY BARLOW Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it fr...
WALT DISNEY Posing in Playboy is every bad girl's dream and every good girl's fantasy. (Stephanie Adams Intervie...
STEPHANIE ADAMS This will be unique downtown -- a place for people to meet and grab a bite before going to bars.
ALICE YIP I think the key to the whole appeal of Amazons is the egalitarian society. There was once a time and...
ADRIENNE MAYOR There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be ...
TORI AMOS We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resou...
JOHN SULSTON This will be our largest and toughest meet. The tournament consistently has a ton of kids who place ...
CHRIS FORD Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral person...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral person...
CARL JUNG Shaq pe hai yaqeen unko,
Yaqeen pe hai shaq Mujhy.....
.....Kis ka jhoot jhoot hai,
K...
VISHAL BHARADWAJ - HAIDER FILM Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. S...
ERIC RIES Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.
MARY DOUGLAS The company remains ready and willing to meet at any time or place specified by the federal mediator...
BOB LEKITES Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.
ELIZABETH KNOX Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it...
CHRIS MARTIN There will be some voter-friendly, or shall we say patronizing, legislation. We'll see some trash, b...
BRIAN BALLARD Violent ideologies can proliferate and spread; threats are no longer contained by borders and oceans...
LORETTA LYNCH A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can ma...
JOHN MILTON Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet
WENDY KAMINER In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is the secret about which no o...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on...
MARY CATHERINE BATESON People say that New Yorkers aren't friendly, but I think they're more friendly than Londoner...
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DOUGLAS ADAMS The Answer to the Great Question Of.....Life, the Universe and Everything.....(is) Forty-two.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, though...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sen...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have...
DOUGLAS ADAMS It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
DOUGLAS ADAMS In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
DOUGLAS ADAMS He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existenc...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola
DOUGLAS ADAMS Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' h...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics...
DOUGLAS ADAMS He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.
DOUGLAS ADAMS If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non...
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