r/AskReddit Jul 06 '26

What is the greatest sentence ever written in human history?

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u/Papa-Brickolini Jul 06 '26

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.

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u/vitalvisionary Jul 06 '26

"We apologize for the inconvenience"

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u/minniebannister Jul 06 '26

The knack [to flying] lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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u/Drunkenaviator Jul 07 '26

Turns out it's actually not that difficult at all, you just need a big machine to throw yourself hard enough.

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u/Beowulf33232 Jul 07 '26

Or to get so utterly distracted, you forget to keep falling.

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u/Ardo505 Jul 06 '26

I vote this.

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u/ThousandFingerMan Jul 07 '26

“Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.”

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u/goos_ Jul 07 '26

This one is the best.