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    Douglas Adams
    “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.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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    Terry Pratchett
    “And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
    tags: humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather.
    "You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?"
    YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
    tags: belief
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternative hypothesis as "Things just happen. What the hell".”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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    Terry Pratchett
    “You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'
    IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.
    'She's a child!' shouted Crumley.
    IT'S EDUCATIONAL.
    'What if she cuts herself?'
    THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
    tags: children, death, discworld, hogfather, humor, humour, important-lessons, lessons, swords
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    Terry Pratchett
    “YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

    "So we can believe the big ones?"

    YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
    tags: justice, lies, mercy
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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
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor, proverb
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
    tags: humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
    tags: death, humor, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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    Terry Pratchett
    “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
    tags: humor, metaphysics, physics, science
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    Terry Pratchett
    “It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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    Terry Pratchett
    “And what would humans be without love?"
    RARE, said Death.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: full, hat, pratchett, sky, terry
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    Terry Pratchett
    “A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: bookshop, bookstore, discworld, read, reading
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
    tags: humor, life, movies
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  • #21
    Terry Pratchett
    “There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: letting-go, tenacity
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    Terry Pratchett
    “This book was written using 100% recycled words.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
    tags: conservation, environmentalism, humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?"
    Mort thought for a moment.
    "No," he said eventually, "what?"
    There was silence.
    Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Mort
    tags: answers, fate, questions
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    Terry Pratchett
    “HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
    tags: apathy, boredom, cynism, ennui, humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
    tags: cruelty, evil, humanity, kindness
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
    tags: luck
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    Terry Pratchett
    “He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Progress just means bad things happen faster.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
    tags: education, humor, life, philosphy, truth
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  • #29
    Terry Pratchett
    “Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
    tags: humor
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  • #31
    Terry Pratchett
    “A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
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