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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.
-- Frederick Douglass
Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice -- only the willingness to make it when necessary.
-- Frederick Dunn
When rats leave a sinking ship, where exactly do they think they're going?
-- Douglas Gauck
Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth.
-- Douglas Jerrold
"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements."
-- Norman Douglas
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
-- Douglas Adams
With a rubber duck, one's never alone.
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
This sentence contradicts itself -- no, actually it doesn't.
-- Douglas Hofstadter
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
-- Douglas Adams
"It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'as pretty as an airport' exist."
-- Douglas Adams
"The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks."
-- Douglas Adams (Dirk Gently)
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Please... there is a 'u' after every 'q' in French. (Well, almost; the exceptions are 'cinq', 'iraqien', 'coq'--five Iraqi cocks.)
-- Frederic Maffray
"The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry."
-- Douglas Adams
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
`Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.'
(Arthur experiencing the improbability drive at work)
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
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 Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-- Douglas Adams
"The right to revolt has sources deep in our history."
-- Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas
"If you ever have a free moment, you might consider checking out the travel brochures for the town in which you live. You might be amazed. You might not want to live there anymore."
-- Douglas Coupland
"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."
-- Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas