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The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.
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See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.
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There was no himself in himself.
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But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.
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It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, Well, isn't this nice.
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Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.
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