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Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.
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If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.
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Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything.
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See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.
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