"Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one."
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"Given enough coffee I could rule the world"
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"The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks."
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"Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that."
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"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things."
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"The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame."
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"Not all questions are answered, but fortunately some answers are questioned."
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"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom."
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"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."
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"Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
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"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon..."
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"There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed."
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"On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists."
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"Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time."
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"Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying."
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"Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them."
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"God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, ie., everybody, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time."
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"I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him."
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"at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely everything that is anything, this puts a bit of a strain on things. Outside the boundaries of the universe lie the raw realities, the could-have-beens, the might-bes, the never-weres, the wild ideas, all being created and uncreated chaotically like elements in fermenting supernovas. Just occasionally where the walls of the worlds have worn a bit thin, they can leak in."
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"...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."
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