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Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.Terry Pratchett
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Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days.Terry Pratchett
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Sybil’s female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of a stricken elephant, had handed around the little gold chocolates while trolls were trying to break into the compound, or had merely stayed at home and nursed such bits of husbands and sons as made it back from endless little wars. The result was a species of woman who, when duty called, turned into solid steel.Terry Pratchett
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Then Tak looked upon the stone and it was trying to come alive, and Tak smiled, and wrote All things strive. And for the service the stone had given, he fashioned it into the first Troll, and delighted in the life that came unbidden.Terry Pratchett
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Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five minutes, perhaps. But that was just it. If you could go for five minutes, then you'd go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours..and not see your son all evening. So that was that. Six o'clock, prompt. Every day. Read to young Sam. No excuses. He'd promised himself that. No excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.Terry Pratchett
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I believe the term is ‘eminent domain.’ Ah, yes. That means ‘theft by the government,Terry Pratchett
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War, Nobby. Huh! What is it good for?" he said. "Dunno, Sarge. Freeing slaves, maybe?"" Absol–well, okay." "Defending yourself against a totalitarian aggressor?"" All right, I'll grant you that, but–"" Saving civilization from a horde of–" "It doesn't do any good in the long run is what I'm saying, Nobby, if you'd listen for five seconds together, " said Fred Colon sharply. "Yeah, but in the long run, what does, Sarge? .Terry Pratchett