Douglas Adams

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• I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.

  • Comedy

• If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

  Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

  • Comedy

• In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.

  • God

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy