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Terry Pratchett Quotes

«Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.»
Author: Terry Pratchett (Writer) | Keywords: build, on fire, rest day, warm
«In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.»
«And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.»
«It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.»
Author: Terry Pratchett (Writer) | Keywords: in fact, passes
«The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp»
«The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.»
«In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.»
«Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.»
«It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.»
«They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.»
Author: Terry Pratchett (Writer) | Keywords: One half

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