He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.
Douglas AdamsThe fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
Douglas AdamsPardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed.
Douglas AdamsAnd then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.
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