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They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Terence David John Terry Pratchett
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Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
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I think, he said, I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.
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History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.
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Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out.
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People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called Living.
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People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
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Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.
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