Terry Pratchett

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Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English humorist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels.

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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

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Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

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I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

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It's a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. . . . It is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, to turn the unusual into the usual. Otherwise, human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing a stupid grin, saying, "Wow," a lot. Part of the brain exists to stop this from happening. It is very efficient, and can make people experience boredom in the middle of marvels.

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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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Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

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Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

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Ninety percent of most magic consists of knowing one extra fact.

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The thing about football — the important thing about football — is that it is not just about football.

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