"I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best."
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"It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink."
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"Occasionally he would very nearly swear."
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"You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?"
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"Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one."
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"I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people."
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"It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them."
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"There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died."
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"Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead."
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"You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick."
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"When much is taken, something is returned."
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"You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you be happy in a world where medical care is widely available, houses are clean, the world's music and sights and foods can be brought into your home at small cost, traveling even 100 miles is easy, childbirth is generally not fatal to mother or child, you don't have to die of dental abscesses and you don't have to do what the squire tells you" they'd think you were talking about the New Jerusalem and say "yes.""
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"Most people who have found that they are more intelligent than most around them, have yet to learn that one of the most intelligent things they can do is prevent said people ever finding this out."
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"The book is not completely written until someone else has read it."
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"Money doesn't buy happiness, Gytha." "I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks!"
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"I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE."
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"What’s this here,” he said suspiciously, “about us got to give you faggots?” Oh, we have to have them,” said Newt, “We burn them.” Say what?” We burn them.” The guard’s face broadened into a grin. And they’d told him England was soft. “Right on!” he said"
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"Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do."
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"Look out! He's got a daisy!"
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"Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it has power over us. When we are prepared to discuss it aloud, we might have power over it. It's thought of as a mental illness and it is a physical illness, affecting the brain. There should be no shame in having it, yet people still don't talk about it"
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