What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?
Douglas AdamsHe hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Douglas AdamsMany respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.
Douglas AdamsThe Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.
Douglas AdamsHe was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.
Douglas AdamsPeople will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I've been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.)
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