You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

—Douglas Adams

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Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter. He wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy, before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 14 million copies in...

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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

—Douglas Adams

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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

—Douglas Adams

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

—Douglas Adams

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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

—Douglas Adams

Life… is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

—Douglas Adams

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To live is to think.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

—The Teaching of Buddha

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It doesn't make you a bad person to want to live your own life.

—Alexandra Bracken in The Darkest Minds

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

—Judy Garland

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