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- You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this…
- Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows…
- The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her control. It changed…
- Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.
- Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same…
- But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt…
- One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding…
- People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.
- Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face.
- [Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world…
- Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets…
- only to people!' shouted Rincewind. He drew his sword and, with a smooth overarm throw, completely failed to hit the troll.
- People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.
- Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create…
- It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do…
- ...William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense…
- It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.
- And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was…
- That's the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and see if anything interesting is going to happen to other people.
- You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t…
- First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People who enjoy thinking…
- Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem to worry about…
- Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized…
- The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.
- You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking…
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