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You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.
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If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.
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Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. Treatle: I hadn't looked at it like that, but you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance. They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.
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Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips.
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She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.
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When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.
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Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands.
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If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.
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It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.
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Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.
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My agent pointed out one day that I had been quoted by a columnist in some American newspaper, and he noted with some glee that they simply identified me by name without reminding people who I was, apparently in the clear expectation that their readers would know who I am.
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I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.
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...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.
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There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.
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People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.
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Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.
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The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.
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A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing.
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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 it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.
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People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.
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Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.
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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.
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What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.
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All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you would be done by." It has one or 2 flaws, but it is a good soundbite. Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.
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My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.
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Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.
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She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.
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I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.
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People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
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People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.
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A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
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Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle.
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You're allowed to grant people into the darkness, but you must allow them to come out again.
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Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
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They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and when wrong is right. The world needs the people who work around the edges. They need the people who can deal with the little bumps and inconveniences. And little problems. After all, we are almost all human. Almost all of the time.
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People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.
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Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals
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Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess, say, weight. Some people are more real than others, for example. It has been estimated that there are only about five hundred real people on any given planet, which is why they keep unexpectedly running into one another all the time.
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Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.
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The people who guard the rainbow don't like those who get in the way of the sun.
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