Look, would it save you all this bother if I just gave up and went mad now?
("The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy")
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Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'But,' says Man, The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'Oh dear,' says God, I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic. Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and getshimself killed on the next zebra crossing.
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Why can't people just learn to live together in peace and harmony' said Arthur. Ford gave a loud, very hollow laugh. 'Forty-two' he said with a malicious grin, 'No, doesn't work. Never mind.
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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
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Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.
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