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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

In fact, Ford Prefect was a roving researcher for that wholly remarkable book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.†
Chpt 1

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol.†
Chpt 2

Drink … but … very carefully … The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy sells rather better than the Encyclopedia Galactica.†
Chpt 2

The other reason was that this device was in fact that most remarkable of all books ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor—The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.†
Chpt 3

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels.†
Chpt 3

What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.†
Chpt 3

Of all the races in all of the Galaxy who could have come and said a big hello to planet Earth, he thought, didn't it just have to be the Vogons.†
Chpt 3

As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition.†
Chpt 3

Far away on the opposite spiral arm of the Galaxy, five hundred thousand light-years from the star Sol, Zaphod Beeblebrox, President of the Imperial Galactic Government, sped across the seas of Damogran; his ion drive delta boat winking and flashing in the Damogran sun.†
Chpt 4

But it was not in any way a coincidence that today, the day of culmination of the project, the great day of unveiling, the day that the Heart of Gold was finally to be introduced to a marveling Galaxy, was also a great day of culmination for Zaphod Beeblebrox.†
Chpt 4

It was for the sake of this day that he had first decided to run for the presidency, a decision that had sent shock waves of astonishment throughout the Imperial Galaxy.†
Chpt 4

Only six people in the entire Galaxy understood the principle on which the Galaxy was governed, and they knew that once Zaphod Beeblebrox had announced his intention to run as President it was more or less a fait accompli: he was ideal presidency fodder.†
Chpt 4

Only six people in the entire Galaxy understood the principle on which the Galaxy was governed, and they knew that once Zaphod Beeblebrox had announced his intention to run as President it was more or less a fait accompli: he was ideal presidency fodder.†
Chpt 4

An orange sash was what the President of the Galaxy traditionally wore.†
Chpt 4

It might not even have made much difference to them if they'd known exactly how much power the President of the Galaxy actually wielded: none at all.†
Chpt 4

Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.†
Chpt 4

The President of the Galaxy had arrived.†
Chpt 4

At the heart of it, unseen, lay a small gold box which carried within it the most brain-wrenching device ever conceived, a device that made this star-ship unique in the history of the Galaxy, a device after which the ship had been named—the Heart of Gold.†
Chpt 4

On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had—he has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud.†
Chpt 4

Within a few short Vog years every last Vogon had migrated to the Megabrantis cluster, the political hub of the Galaxy, and now formed the immensely powerful backbone of the Galactic Civil Service.†
Chpt 5

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.†
Chpt 5

They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy—not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous.†
Chpt 5

The Galaxy's a fun place.†
Chpt 5

Because Ford never learned to say his original name, his father eventually died of shame, which is still a terminal disease in some parts of the Galaxy.†
Chpt 5

He tossed over The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and then curled himself up into a fetal ball to prepare himself for the jump.†
Chpt 6

"The Babel fish," said The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quietly, "is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe.†
Chpt 6

"Well, there are a hundred billion stars in the Galaxy, and only a limited amount of space in the book's microprocessors," he said, "and no one knew much about the Earth, of course."†
Chpt 6

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book.†
Chpt 8

For light to reach the other side of the Galaxy, for it to reach Damogran, for instance, takes rather longer: five hundred thousand years.†
Chpt 8

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy says that if you hold a lungful of air you can survive in the total vacuum of space for about thirty seconds.†
Chpt 8

A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy.†
Chpt 9

I mean, here we are on the run and everything, we must have the police of half the Galaxy after us by now, and we stop to pick up hitchhikers.
Chpt 11 *

galaxy = a collection of star systems held together by gravity

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes," with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent.†
Chpt 11

"… and news reports brought to you here on the sub-etha wave band, broadcasting around the Galaxy around the clock," squawked a voice, "and we'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.†
Chpt 12

Now he felt he was back on home ground he suddenly began to resent having lumbered himself with this ignorant primitive who knew as much about the affairs of the Galaxy as an Ilford-based gnat knew about life in Peking.†
Chpt 13

The fact that he had become President of the Galaxy was frankly astonishing, as was the manner of his leaving the post.†
Chpt 14

"Inside a dark nebula is the only place in the Galaxy you'd see a dark screen."†
Chpt 14

Excerpt from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, page 634784, section 5a.†
Chpt 15

The home of this industry was the planet Magrathea, where hyperspatial engineers sucked matter through white holes in space to form it into dream planets—gold planets, platinum planets, soft rubber planets with lots of earthquakes—all lovingly made to meet the exacting standards that the Galaxy's richest men naturally came to expect.†
Chpt 15

But so successful was this venture that Magrathea itself soon became the richest planet of all time and the rest of the Galaxy was reduced to abject poverty.†
Chpt 15

Even the most seasoned star tramp can't help but shiver at the spectacular drama of a sunrise seen from space, but a binary sunrise is one of the marvels of the Galaxy.†
Chpt 16

Stress and nervous tension are now serious social problems in all parts of the Galaxy, and it is in order that this situation should not be in any way exacerbated that the following facts will now be revealed in advance.†
Chpt 16

Ford's copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy smashed into another section of the control console with the combined result that the Guide started to explain to anyone who cared to listen about the best ways of smuggling Antarean parakeet glands out of Antares (an Antarean parakeet gland stuck on a small stick is a revolting but much-sought-after cocktail delicacy and very large sums of money are often paid for them by very rich idiots who want to impress other very rich idiots),…†
Chpt 17

Of all the planets in all the star systems of all the Galaxy—many wild and exotic, seething with life—didn't he just have to turn up at a dump like this after fifteen years of being a castaway?†
Chpt 20

What you have so far said nothing about is how in the Galaxy you found it.†
Chpt 20

I reckon I'll become President of the Galaxy, and it just happens, it's easy.†
Chpt 20

Ford had thoughtfully left him his copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to while away the time with.†
Chpt 21

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a very unevenly edited book and contains many passages that simply seemed to its editors like a good idea at the time.†
Chpt 21

There followed a long period of painstaking research during which he visited all the major centers of ballpoint loss throughout the Galaxy and eventually came up with a quaint little theory that quite caught the public imagination at the time.†
Chpt 21

"No no, good heavens, no," exclaimed the old man, "no, the Galaxy isn't nearly rich enough to support us yet.†
Chpt 24

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(galaxy)
a collection of star systems held together by gravity -- for example, our sun is a star whose system includes Earth and the other planets. That star system is a tiny part of the Milky Way galaxy

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