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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
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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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It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
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Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
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In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
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The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
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Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
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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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Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
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Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
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The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
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Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.
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The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
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You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
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