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Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue hues that any professional artist would dismiss as the work of some enthsiastic amateur who'd never looked at a real sunset. This was one of those sunrises. It was the kind of sunrise a man looks at and says, 'No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.' Nevertheless, it was beautiful.
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Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
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There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half-full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half-empty. The world belongs , however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me ? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!
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When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror.
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What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: 'Why is it so dark in here?'
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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
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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.
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Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
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Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease and burnt crunchy bits.
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Science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good
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One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
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Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street- cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
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It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored.
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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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An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
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'I meant,' said Ipslore bitterly, 'what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?'
Death thought about it.
'Cats,' he said eventually. 'Cats are nice.'
Death thought about it.
'Cats,' he said eventually. 'Cats are nice.'
By Terry Pratchett