"That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know."
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"And what do you really do? asked Tiffany. The thin witch hesitatied for a moment, and then: We look to ... the edges, said Mistress Weatherwax. There's a lot of edges, more than people know. Between life and death, this world and the next, night and day, right and wrong ... an' they need watchin'. We watch 'em, we guard the sum of things. And we never ask for any reward. That's important."
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"For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works."
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"The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, “What about me?” and you can just hear the universe replying, “Well, what about you?”"
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"Tʜᴇʀᴇ's ɴᴏ ᴊᴜsᴛɪᴄᴇ, ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ's ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴍᴇ. —Death"
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"The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his."
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"Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions."
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"The mountains of madness have many little plateau of sanity."
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"Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat."
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"It takes a special kind of person to fight back."
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"He never pays attention, he always knows the answer, and he can never tell you how he knows. We can't keep thrashing him. He is a bad example to the other pupils. There's no educating a smart boy."
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"Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one."
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"Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord."
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"Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong... But it might."
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"Some People think 'coven' is a word for a group of witches, and it's true that's what the dictionary says. But the real word for a group of witches is 'an argument'."
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"In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought he was worth smiling at."
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"That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men."
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"Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder."
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"No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink."
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"I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost."
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