If human beings dont keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they dont keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.
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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light except for bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
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Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.
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Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.
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If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there ... what then The answer, of course, was very simple. He had a whole board of circuits for dealing with exactly this problem, in fact this was the very heart of his function. He would continue to believe in it whatever the facts turned out to be, what else was the meaning of Belief The Door would still be there, even if the Door was not.
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Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody maybe even disliking them a lot and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire.
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