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• Very few things actually get manufactured these day
  because in an infinitely large Universe, such as the one in which we live, most things one could possibly imagine, and a lot of things one would rather not, grow somewhere....
• One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the obviou
  as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?...
• Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents.
  And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill....
• There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.
  They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave....
• I understand life and the universe. Cats are beyond me.
• Troi: "This is a banana split...and it's quite possibly one of the greatest things in the universe.
  -- "Suddenly Human", Stardate unknow...
• History always repeats itself: once as tragedy, the second time as farce.
• At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.
  -- Justice Anthony Kennedy...
• The grace of God means something like: Here is your life.
  You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you....