Quotes By Terry Pratchett
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
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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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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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In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded.
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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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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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Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
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Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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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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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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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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Revolutions always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.
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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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