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“There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.”

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“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.”

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“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,…

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“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of…

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It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family…

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You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.

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Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

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“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse,…

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A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.

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“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.…

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“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.”

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“There is a night that never comes to an end.... The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving…

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When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who…

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The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is…

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Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues…

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But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if…

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The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]…

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Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to…

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my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

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He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that…

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My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

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Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul…

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Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to…

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The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,…

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