God's Final Message to His Creation:
'We apologize for the inconvenience.


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As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.
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is not something you can just
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Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
...
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"Not my style"
"Raisinets."
"Feh."
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Please accept our apology for any inconvenience or frustration we may have caused.
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I am the slave of the Master of Prophets
And my fealty to him has no beginning.

I am...
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For the gods know I
speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge
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“From all indicatio...
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Such is the world
that I can no longer
bear to say prayers,
for I am sick
of...
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I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”...
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
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My grandfather was the first building inspector for Douglas County.
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That caravan looks as if it’s all Vorin. Also, you look a little spindly for a Horneater.”
...
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But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted....
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Hazel blinked. “Two gods had a horse for a kid?”
“Long story.
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Though thou loved her as thyself,
As a self of purer clay,
Tho' her parting dims the day,
S...
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The greyness of life,
Is the mockery of despair.
For when it is final,
Who then will...
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Thirty minutes later, Rowan was still staring up at the ceiling, teeth gritted as he calmed the roar...
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There's nothing to apologize for.
HOWARD MOSCOE
God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him ...
LEO STRAUSS
Apologize on you mistake in time-may you never get time again...
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We apologize to our fans.
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BILL SCRANTON
If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse.
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In strange ways hard to know gods come to men.
Many a thing past hope they have fulfilled,
EDITH HAMILTON
In strange ways hard to know gods come to men.
Many a thing past hope they have fulfilled,
EDITH HAMILTON
Find the right paths for your journey.
Travel along these paths to your final destination.
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The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.
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If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, ...
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Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however...
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The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best wa...
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Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable its...
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Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.
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A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the s...
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First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with AS...
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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
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The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind...
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The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!
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The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
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Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those s...
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you ...
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I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. ...
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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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Life? Don't talk to me about life!
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The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angr...
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The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
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The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss
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Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
The second worst is that of the Az...
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Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
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In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lo...
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy...
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The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a dou...
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O Deep Thought computer," he said, "the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to...
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Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much......
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The Answer to the Great Question Of.....Life, the Universe and Everything.....(is) Forty-two.
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The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
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One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
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Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, though...
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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i...
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Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.
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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys ...
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The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sen...
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Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have...
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It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
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In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and...
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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
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He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was...
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Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of...
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may...
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The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existenc...
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The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola
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Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here.
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The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a...
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My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' h...
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Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics...
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He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.
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