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Progress just means bad things happen faster.

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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.
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At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.
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My programming language was solder.
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Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror.
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It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country, he read. This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.
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The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
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I think, he said, I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.
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I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.
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He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.
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It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.
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But you ain't part of it, are you? said Granny conversationally. You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite believin' anything? Thinkin' the wrong thoughts?
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If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.
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WHERE'S MY COW? ARE YOU MY COW?
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But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.
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Freedom without limits is just a word.
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It's no wonder most religions are born in the desert, because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up at the infinite expanse of creation they have an uncontrollable urge to put something in the way .
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