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  1. Terry Pratchett _ Raising Steam

    New things, new ideas arrived and strutted their stuff and were vilified by some and then lo! that which had been a monster was suddenly totally important to the world.
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  2. Terry Pratchett _ Raising Steam

    the queen appeared as innocent as one of those mountains which smoke a little, and then one day end up causing a whole civilization to become an art installation
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  3. Terry Pratchett _ Raising Steam

    There was always something that you had to do before you could do the thing you wanted to do and even then you might get it wrong.
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  4. Terry Pratchett _ Raising Steam

    And in this doleful mood he ventured to wonder if they ever thought back to when things were just old-fangled or not fangled at all as against the modern day when fangled had reached its apogee. Fangling was indeed, he thought, here to stay. Then he wondered: had anyone ever thought of themselves as a fangler?
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  5. Terry Pratchett _ Raising Steam

    Vetinari gave him a look that did not actually employ a raised eyebrow but which implied that one might be forthcoming if the recipient of the look pushed his luck.
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  6. Terry Pratchett _ Raising Steam

    Uncertainty is always uncertain, but the difficulty with people who rely on systems is that they begin to believe that nearly everything is in some way a system and therefore, sooner or later, they become bureaucrats.
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  7. Terry Pratchett _ Raising Steam

    people went looking to find themselves and what they found was somebody else.
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  8. Terry Pratchett _ Raising Steam

    ...the world kept turning and the Turtle moved.
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  9. Terry Pratchett _ Raising Steam

    Everybody present laughed nervously, except Lord Vetinari, who just laughed.
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  10. Terry Pratchett _ Raising Steam

    Everything is magic when you don't know what it is. Your sliding rule is a magic wand to most people.
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  11. Terry Pratchett _ Raising Steam

    I see embarrassment among all of you. That's good. The thing about being embarrassed is that sooner or later you aren't, but you remember that you were.
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  12. Terry Pratchett _ Raising Steam

    Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium.
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