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• Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.

  Terry Pratchett

  Long, Giving, World

  "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• I imagine that fish have no word for water.

  Terry Pratchett

  Water, Imagine, Fishes

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.184, Random House

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• The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

  Terry Pratchett

  Peace, Military, War

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• The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Space, Silence

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.187, Random House

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• People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sorry, Journey, Rocks

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.21, Random House

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• I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Angel, Rising

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.150, Random House

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• I commend my soul to any god that can find it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Soul, My Soul

  Terry Pratchett (2013). “Going Postal: Stage Adaptation”, p.15, A&C Black

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• He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.

  Terry Pratchett

  Atheist, Giving, Aim

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.199, Random House

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• "There's a door," he whispered. "Where does it go?" "It stays where it is, I think," said Rincewind.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Doors, Doe

  "Eric (Discworld, Book 9)". Book by Terry Pratchett (p. 86), 1990.

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• Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Science, Drug, Too Much

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.12, Random House

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• The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.

  Terry Pratchett

  Pages, Soap, Truth Is

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Feb 22, 2017

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• No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

  Terry Pratchett

  Death, Memories, Remembrance

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)”, p.317, Random House

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• And then you bit onto them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal that the animal didn't know it had got. Dibbler had worked out that with enough fried onions and mustard people would eat anything.

  Terry Pratchett

  Food, Cutting, Animal

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• God does not play dice [with the universe].
  [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

  Albert Einstein

  God, Play, Gambling

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• Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

  Byron Katie

  Sister, Daughter, Brother

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• If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Powerful, Fantasy Stories

  "Terry Pratchett Toast" by Robert Haynes-Peterson, www.askmen.com.

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• And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.

  Terry Pratchett

  Exclamation Marks, Underpants, Five

  "Maskerade". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1995.

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• The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out test for a novice. He is taken into a room full of all types of clothing and asked: Yo, my son, which of these is the most stylish thing to wear? And the correct answer is: Hey, whatever I select.

  Terry Pratchett

  Taken, Son, Novices

  "Lords And Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.

  Terry Pratchett

  Grease, Guilt, Wheels

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.63, Random House

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  What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Average, Criminals

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)”, p.64, Random House

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• Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Minorities, Littles

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld”, p.158, Random House

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• Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Walks, Small Gods

  "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and, given Ankh-Morpork's crime rate, leading to at least one old lady having her front room wallpapered so many times in six months that now she could only get in sideways.

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Elderly, Community

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)”, p.60, Random House

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• Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nature, Keys, Pyramids

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• Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble.

  Terry Pratchett

  Phrases, Asking, Lexicon

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.173, Random House

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