"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
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Douglas Adams, in Andy Wrasman Contradict: They Can't All Be True, WestBowPress, 13-Jan-2014, p. 84.
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