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The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.
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SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong.
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People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street.
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I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels.
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Aliens don't get stuck in air ducts. It's practically a well-known fact.
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Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving
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Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave, and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat.
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History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.
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The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.
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The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine.
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Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]
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Most alchemists were nervous, in any case; it came from not knowing what the crucible of bubbling stuff they were experimenting with was going to do next.
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Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
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It doesn't matter how you live and die, it's how the bards wrote it down.
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Behind him the Master of Ceremonies cleared his throat. His eyes took on a distant, glazed look.The Stealer of Souls, he said in the faraway voice of one whose ears aren't hearing what his mouth is saying, Defeater of Empires, Swallower of Oceans, Thief of Years, The Ultimate Reality, Harvester of Mankind, the-ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. I CAN SEE MYSELF IN.
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Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be
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He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best in the spring, when the gummy sheen on the turbid waters of the Ankh River had a special iridescence and the eaves were full of birdsong, or at least birds coughing rhythmically
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The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedne ss.
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When your name is really and truly Percy Blakeney, pronounced 'Black-knee', and you still have bad acne in your twenties, you accept Pimple as a nickname and are grateful that it wasn't anything worse.
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People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.
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Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was stuck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card.
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Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.
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Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.
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It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.
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I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts,
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
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Born:
April 28, 1948
Died:
March 12, 2015
(aged 66)
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Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels.
Known for:
The Colour of Magic (1983)
The Shepherd's Crown (2015)
The Wee Free Men (2003)
Good Omens (1990)
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