“...either the gods are there whether you believe or not, or exist only as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the whole business...” ― Terry Pratchett
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“He was up against a mind that regarded truth as a reference point but certainly not as a shackle.” ― Terry Pratchett
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“Watering down the currency of expression, causing anything to mean whatever you want it to mean, until nothing is meant and nothing is precise.” ― Terry Pratchett
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“Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found reason not to be.” ― Terry Pratchett
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“Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.” ― Terry Pratchett
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“Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind.” ― Terry Pratchett
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“These people were not only cheering, they were throwing flowers and hats. The hats were made of stone, but the thought was there.” ― Terry Pratchett
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“Sometimes life reaches that desperate point where the wrong thing to do has to be the right thing to do.” ― Terry Pratchett
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"It wasn't exactly whiskey, and it wasn't exactly gin, but it was exactly 90° proof, and a great comfort during those worrying moments that sometimes occurred around 3 a.m. when you woke up and forgot who you were." - Terry Pratchett
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“Fear is strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.” ― Terry Pratchett
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“People were strange like that. Steal five dollars and you were a petty thief. Steal thousands of dollars and you were either a government or a hero.” ― Terry Pratchett
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“We thought the fireworks were marvelous, and I expect they'll soon be able to rebuild the outer wall.” ― Terry Pratchett
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“...it's true that some if the most terrible things in the works are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.” ― Terry Pratchett
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“That's what prayers are... it's frightened people trying to make friends with the bully!” ― Terry Pratchett
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“The members of the Guild of Assassins considered themselves cultured men who enjoyed good music and food and literature. And they knew the value of human life. To a penny, in many cases.” ― Terry Pratchett
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"Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed." - Terry Pratchett
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“Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice -- i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the world for it.” ― Terry Pratchett
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“People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.” ― Terry Pratchett
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"They speak a kind of Gaelic and have a 'Gonagal' (a parody of William McGonagall) who recites terrible poetry as a weapon." - Terry Pratchett
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"THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."
"Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.” ― Terry Pratchett.
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"Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People love a show." - Terry Pratchett
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“It's not for nothing that advanced mathematics tend to be invented in hot countries. It's because of the morphic resonance of all the camels who have that disdainful expression and famous curled lip as a natural result of an ability to do quadratic equations.” ― Terry Pratchett
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“The hated have no reason to love.” ― Terry Pratchett
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“No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence.”
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“Science is not about building a body of known ‘facts’. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good.” ― Terry Pratchett
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“Sometimes the moon is light and sometimes it's in shadow, but you should always remember it's the same moon.” ― Terry Pratchett
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"Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong." - Terry Pratchett
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“The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.” ― Terry Pratchett
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“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.” ― Terry Pratchett
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“They both savored the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were ignorant of only ordinary things.” ― Terry Pratchett
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