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Terry Pratchett _ Interesting Times
A foot on the neck is nine points of the law.
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Terry Pratchett _ Interesting Times
Oh, no," said the Lecturer in Recent Runes, pushing his chair back. "Not that. That's meddling with things you don't understand.""Well, we are wizards," said Ridcully. "We're supposed to meddle in things we don't understand. If we hung around waitin' till we understood things we'd never get anything done."
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Terry Pratchett _ Interesting Times
And when in doubt, take all your clothes off,' said Caleb. 'What for?' 'Sign of a good berserk, taking all your clothes off. Frightens the hell out of the enemy. If anyone starts laughing, stab 'em one.
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Terry Pratchett _ Interesting Times
He wanted to say: how could you be so nice and yet so dumb? The best thing you could do with the peasents was to leave them alone. Let them get on with it. When people who can read and write start fighting for those who can't, you just end up with another kind of stupidity. If you want to help them, build a big library or something somewhere and leave the door open.
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Terry Pratchett _ Interesting Times
They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was not because there was anything virtuous about poor people, it was simply because poor people had no money.
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Terry Pratchett _ Interesting Times
In life, as in breakfast cereal, it is always best to read the instructions on the box.
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Terry Pratchett _ Interesting Times
Most of the gods throw dice but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been using two queens all along. Fate wins.
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Terry Pratchett _ Interesting Times
It was impossible for him to get bored. He just didn't have the imagination."
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Terry Pratchett _ Interesting Times
You could say to the universe this is not fair. And the universe would say: Oh, isn't it? Sorry.
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Terry Pratchett _ Interesting Times
I heard the Empire has a tyrannical and repressive government!""What form of government is that?" said Ponder Stibbons."A tautology," said the Dean, from above."
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Terry Pratchett _ Interesting Times
The Empire's got something worse than whips all right. It's got obedience. Whips in the soul. They obey anyone who tells them what to do. Freedom just means being told what to do by someone different.
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Terry Pratchett _ Interesting Times
Many things went on at Unseen University and, regrettably, teaching had to be one of them. The faculty had long ago confronted this fact and had perfected various devices for avoiding it. But this was perfectly all right because, to be fair, so had the students.
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