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Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
“Forty-two,” said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
"by the fact itself"
somene who doesn't want to?
