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 The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it "Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary to all sense."
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The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to “put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honesty to reporting”.
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Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
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Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces
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Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there’s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.
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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.
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’I`d have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn`t for the fact that you are the University authorities . . .`
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Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
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Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
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The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.
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I`ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there`s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.
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For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
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God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won`t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
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It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it`s called Life.
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No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
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Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
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What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?"
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It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored.
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Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn`t believing. It`s where belief stops, because it isn`t needed any more.
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It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone`s fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I`m one of Us. I must be. I`ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We`re always one of Us. It`s Them that do the bad things.
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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.
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Revolutions always come around again. That`s why they`re called revolutions.
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An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
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Gods don`t like people not doing much work. People who aren`t busy all the time might start to think.
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That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can`t understand this, what`s wrong with me?" An American says: "I can`t understand this, what`s wrong with him?"
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If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.
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Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
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The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
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In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded.
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Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits.
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Bishops move diagonally. That`s why they often turn up where the kings don`t expect them to be.
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Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
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Give a man a fire and he`s warm for the day. But set fire to him and he`s warm for the rest of his life.
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Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
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A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
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Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street- cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
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