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Terry Pratchett Inspirational Quotes (820)

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Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it. No, actually it isn't, said Tiffany. Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.
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It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it.
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I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'
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Magic is just a way of saying 'I don't know.'
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NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR? Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither.
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That, lad, he said proudly, was some of the worst poetry I have heard for a long time. It was offensive to the ear and a torrrture to the soul....We'll make a gonnagle out of ye yet!
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Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.
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There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. It's sad, but that's all you can say about some people.
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Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.
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Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.
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Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.
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The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears the conductor the staff on one prompt side won't talk to the staff on the opposite prompt side, the dancers are all crazed from hunger in any case.
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Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.
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The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.
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I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.
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People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.
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You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.
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So, mistletoe, in fact, symbolizes mistletoe.
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Everything is a test.
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Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.
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Certainly I have no faith in Jehovah, although I think it quite likely that Jesus Christ, as a preacher and a wise man, did indeed exist.
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He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk.
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It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever he said. Have you thought of going into teaching?
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An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?
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