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Example Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- 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…
- Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must…
- The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events…
- It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most…
- But what's worth more than gold?" "Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all.…
- 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…
- Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way…
More Example Quotes
- Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is… — Teresa of Avila
- Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. — Robert Baden-Powell
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two… — Ambrose Bierce