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I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
– Douglas Adams

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  3. This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays – Douglas Adams
  4. What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I’d far rather be happy than right any day. – Douglas Adams
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  10. And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before–and thus was the Empire forged. – Douglas Adams
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  14. ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn’t a mirror big enough-”see point one. – Douglas Adams
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  17. Why should I want to make anything up? Life’s bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it. – Douglas Adams
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  19. Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through. – Douglas Adams
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  21. We have a saying up here. -˜Life is wasted on the living. – Douglas Adams
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  24. The light was only just visible – except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light. – Douglas Adams
  25. He let the curtain drop and the terrible light that had played on his features went off to play somewhere more healthy. – Douglas Adams
  26. He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon. – Douglas Adams
  27. I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don’t believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view. – Douglas Adams
  28. The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. – Douglas Adams
  29. There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler’s mind. – Douglas Adams
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  38. He wondered if it was safe to grin. Very slowly and carefully, he grinned. It was safe. – Douglas Adams
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