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• The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phase
  hose of Survival, Inquiry, and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases....
• Quote #159 The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, "What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?
  and my answer must at once be, "It is no use." There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever....
• 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....
• Two men are in a hot-air balloon. Soon, they find themselves lost in a canyon somewhere.
  One of the three men says, "I've got an idea. We can call for help in this canyon and the echo will carry our voices to the end of the canyon....
• And given this topology [the mobius strip] we can move on what is known as an orientation-reversing path.
  We cannot do this in our normal three-space topology, except via those paths which pass through San Francisco or Greenwich Village....
• Data: "It is perplexing to me that the Ullians' ability to retrieve memory is so highly prized.
  If an event were important enough to be recovered, why would it have been forgotten?...
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• The renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink.
  He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it....
• Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten.
  Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain but there in the sandbox at nursery school....