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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: humor, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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  • #8
    Douglas Adams
    “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: attributed-no-source, humor, misattributed-douglas-adams, wit
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  • #9
    Douglas Adams
    “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: humor, perspective, science
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  • #10
    Douglas Adams
    “Don't Panic.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: h2g2, hitchhiker-s-guide, humor, panic
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  • #11
    Douglas Adams
    “Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
    tags: philosophy
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    Douglas Adams
    “I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: atheism, intelligence
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  • #13
    Douglas Adams
    “So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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  • #14
    Douglas Adams
    “Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
    tags: maturity, understanding
    945 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: definition, doubt, humour, life, uncertainty
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  • #16
    Douglas Adams
    “If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, zaphod-beeblebrox
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  • #17
    Douglas Adams
    “There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
    tags: contrary, denial, impossible, logic, past, reality
    768 likes

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  • #18
    Douglas Adams
    “Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: advice, belief, internet, net, paradox, scepticism
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    Douglas Adams
    “If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.”
    ― Douglas Adams
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    Pierce Brown
    “There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Golden Son
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  • #21
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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  • #22
    Albert Einstein
    “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: science
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  • #23
    Niels Bohr
    “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    ― Niels Bohr
    tags: science
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    Marie Curie
    “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: fear, life, science, understanding
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  • #25
    Douglas Adams
    “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly.
    The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation.
    "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
    tags: alcohol, bulgakov, cats, vodka
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  • #27
    Terry Pratchett
    “She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant 'idiot'.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
    tags: first, idiot, rincewind, tourism, twoflower
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  • #29
    Terry Pratchett
    “A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
    tags: fear, witchcraft, witches
    351 likes

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  • #30
    Terry Pratchett
    “Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
    tags: life
    210 likes



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