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“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist,'" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“You can observe a lot just by watching.”
― Yogi Berra

“If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.”
― Yogi Berra

“The future ain't what it used to be.”
― Yogi Berra

“Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.”
― Yogi Berra

“Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith, A Life in Our Times: Memoirs