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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Terry Pratchett
    “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
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
    tags: death, immortality, remembrance
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: pyramids
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
    Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
    Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
    Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
    Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
    Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
    The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
    No one ever said elves are nice.
    Elves are bad.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
    tags: elves
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.”
    ― Terry Pratchett , Jingo
    tags: desert, religion
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
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    Terry Pratchett
    “What have I always believed?
    That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
    tags: belief, decency, honesty, morality, religion
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    Terry Pratchett
    “A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
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    Terry Pratchett
    “A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation
    tags: lies, rumors, truth
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    Terry Pratchett
    “So much universe, and so little time.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
    tags: rulebreaking, rules
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    Terry Pratchett
    “It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: adversity, battles, beginnings, blog, classes, freedom, friendships, future, hanging-on, happiness, joy, letting-go, life, life-coach, living-life-to-the-fullest, moving-on, past, pinterest, positive-outlook, problems, relationships, relationships-101, starting-over, staying-positive, staying-positive-university, stayingpositiveu-com, success, trials, website
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    Deborah Reber
    “Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
    ― Deborah Reber, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning
    tags: acceptance, letting-go, love, moving-on
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