"He thought about how it might be to……" — Terry Pratchett
"He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves."
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1,149 Quotes by Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett has 1,149 quotes on this site.
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There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
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Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats…
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Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't,…
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It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they…
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Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison,…
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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…
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At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
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Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.
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A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed…
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Things have no power that humans don't put there.
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