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• Not only is "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" a wholly remarkable book
  it is also a highly successful one - more popular than the "Celestial Home Care Omnibus", better selling than "Fifty-three More Things to Do in Zero Gravity", and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, "Where God Went Wrong", "Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes" and "Who Is This God Person Anyway?...
• One of the interesting things about space is how dull it is - there's so much of it and so little in it.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• It is an important and popular fact that things are not always as they seem.
  -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• Vogon poetry is of course the third worst in the Universe.
  The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by the Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging, and the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off....
• Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire, life was wild, rich and largely tax free.
  Mighty starships plied their way between exotic suns, seeking adventure and reward among the furthest reaches of Galactic space....
• The Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is forty-two.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• consult guide about Galactic Security Agency Suddenly
  agents of the Galactic Security Agency pop in using Sub-Etha belts, rough you up a bit, tell you there's no such thing as the Galactic Security Agency and never to consult The Hitchhiker's Guide about the Galactic Security Agency agai...