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“There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers.”
― Richard Castle

“The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.”
― Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

“Child, [death] is with us always,” said Cadfael, patient beside him. “Last summer ninety-five men died here in the town, none of whom had done murder. For choosing the wrong side, they died. It falls upon blameless women in war, even in peace at the hands of evil men. It falls upon children who never did harm to any, upon old men, who in their lives have done good to many, and yet are brutally and senselessly slain. Never let it shake your faith that there is a balance hereafter. What you see is only a broken piece from a perfect whole.”

“Such justice as we see is also but a broken shred. But it is our duty to preserve what we may, and fit together such fragments as we find, and take the rest on trust.”
― Ellis Peters, St. Peter's Fair

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Vrijeme je da se penje, da se napreduje za stepenicu više, iako ni prethodna stepenica nije još potpuno osvojena ni utvrđena kako treba. Govoriti malo, ne govoriti zlo, glupo, površno ni uzaludno, ili čak ne govoriti uopšte. Sve su to stepenice na putu ličnog napretka i usavršavanja koje u toku života, kao teren u ratu, osvajamo, gubimo i ponovo osvajamo. S godinama, tačnije rečeno sa starošću, koja nastupa polako i tiho kao sumrak na zemlju, krv hladni, nagoni odumiru, savlađujemo se i obuzdavamo lakše, tako da i bez svoje velike zasluge govorimo manje,možda razumnije i čovječnije. Ali to nije dovoljno. Vrijeme je da se pređe na postizavanje višeg stepena, a to je: unutarnje ćutanje. Šta vrijedi što mudro držimo jezik za zubima, ako u nama još sve vri od oštrih sudova i brzopletih replika koje ne pokreću naš jezik i ne prelaze preko usana, ali potresaju i paraju našu unutrašnjost? Često mogu da se vide takvi starci koji smireno i prepodobno ćute, ali im se u pogledu i podrhtavanju usnica javlja ponekad odraz unutarnjih kivnih i zloćudnih monologa i dijaloga. Bilo je vrijeme da već naučimo da u sebi ćutimo. Sve nas poziva na to. Priroda sama nam pomaže u tome. Vrijeme je, jer inače će nam se desiti da do kraja zlo živimo i, na kraju, ružno umremo. A to je strašno.”
― Ivo Andrić, Znakovi pored puta

“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth