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- Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.
- Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither…
- Thats how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits.
- Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about genetics, you might…
- An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of…
- What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?
- Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and…
- I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.
- There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below, in the gloom,…
- Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape.…
- They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.
- Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of…
- And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is…
- 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…
- SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION,…
- The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.
- I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.
- Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.
- Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
- Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I…
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