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Learning Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.
- They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
- She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.
- If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who…
- At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion…
- That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your…
- Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.
- YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF…
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