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479 – “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

–Douglas Adams

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Posted in Adams, Douglas and tagged Ability, Beings, Experience, Human Beings, Human Condition, Human Nature, Humanity, Learn, Mistakes, Sourced, Unique on May 16, 2018 by Chalax91. Leave a comment

454 – “We don’t have to save the world. The World is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the World we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it.”

–Douglas Adams

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Posted in Adams, Douglas and tagged Concern, Earth, Earth Day, Environment, Save, Sourced, Speech, Sustain, World on April 21, 2018 by Chalax91. Leave a comment

189 – “In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”

–Douglas Adams
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Posted in Adams, Douglas and tagged Anger, Angry, Bad, Bad Move, Beginning, Comedic, Comedy, Create, Creation, Douglas Adams, Literary, People, Sourced, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Universe, Truth, Universe on June 21, 2017 by Chalax91. Leave a comment

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