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    Terry Pratchett
    “Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't Just

    Don't just learn, experience.
    Don't just read, absorb.
    Don't just change, transform.
    Don't just relate, advocate.
    Don't just promise, prove.
    Don't just criticize, encourage.
    Don't just think, ponder.
    Don't just take, give.
    Don't just see, feel.
    Don’t just dream, do.
    Don't just hear, listen.
    Don't just talk, act.
    Don't just tell, show.
    Don't just exist, live.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: act, action, change, criticize, doing, dream, dreams, encouragement, experience, feeling, giving, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, learning, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, listening, living, optimism, optimistic, ponder, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, thinking, transform
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
    tags: humour
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
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    Milan Kundera
    “Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: goals, success
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    Milan Kundera
    “Now what was tiring had disappeared and only the beauty remained.
    Saturday found him for the first time strolling alone through Zurich, breathing in the heady smell of his freedom. New adventures hid around each corner. The future was again a secret.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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    Milan Kundera
    “When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: heart, mind
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    Milan Kundera
    “loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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    David Graeber
    “As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.”
    ― David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
    tags: debt
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    David Graeber
    “We have become a civilization based on work—not even “productive work” but work as an end and meaning in itself.”
    ― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
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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
    “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
    tags: humor, science
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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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