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This past year can be characterized as a period of volatility and uncertainty in the global economic environment,


M. Douglas Ivester

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DOUGLAS ADAMS Don't Panic.
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DOUGLAS ADAMS All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you m...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. ...
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 fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet g...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Experience is the best teacher.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
DOUGLAS ADAMS A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
DOUGLAS PAGELS Reality is frequently inaccurate.
DOUGLAS ADAMS He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whethe...
DOUGLAS ADAMS And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest iron...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND I think we have different value systems." —Arthur
"Well mine's better." —Ford
DOUGLAS ADAMS The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which ar...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple."

"Ah, well, I'm...
DOUGLAS ADAMS After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the she...
DOUGLAS ADAMS