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You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?

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I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to ...more

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Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they tho...more

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I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset cos' they act like people", said Adam severely. "Anyway, if you s...more

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The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.

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Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the other one, the little lesson ...more

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Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

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History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, ...more

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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 obvious, but...more

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Death paused. YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE, he said, THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE?‘Yes. Yes, of course.’Death nodded. IN TIME, he said, YOU WILL LEA...more

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I kill in my own time,” he said. “In any case, killing unconscious people isn’t right.”“I can’t think of a more opportune time,” said the Loremaster.

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Falling isn’t so bad, you know. It’s only the landing that hurts.

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It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed.""That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create...more

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They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people lis...more