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- Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new 'fire' stuff on the…
- Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.
- Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.
- Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals…
- Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then…
- The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time on a slab…
- Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.
- It's no wonder most religions are born in the desert, because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up at the infinite…
- People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made…
- Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them.…
- Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.
- 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.
- The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into…
- I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most…
- I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for…
- I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that…
- I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author…
- ...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious…
- They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then…
- The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.
- Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say," said…
- Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent…
- There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in…
- 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…
- Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time listening to what…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster