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"If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty."
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"We do not have the right to make the name of God look bad by our pitiful and impoverished existence."

"Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs."

"Unlike wealth, fame makes it easier for some men and more difficult for some to sleep around."

"If you are a giant mountain, you cannot escape from being famous; all that you can do is to pray for the fog to cover you up!"

"Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers."

"Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides."

"A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment."

"I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it."

"Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left."

"The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price."
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"Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done."

"Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring."

"It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things."

"We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork."

"It was here that the thaum, hitherto believed to be the smallest possible particle of magic, was succesfully demonstrated to be made up of /resons/ (Lit.: 'Thing-ies') or reality fragments. Currently research indicates that each reson is itself made up of a combination of at least five 'flavours', known as 'up', 'down', 'sideways', 'sex appeal' and 'peppermint'."

"I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides."

"Igor?' said Moist. 'You have an Igor?'Oh, yes,' said Hubert. 'That's how I get this wonderful light. They know the secret of storing lightning in jars! But don't let that worry you, Mr Lipspick. Just because I'm employing an Igor and working in a cellar doesn't mean I'm some sort of madman, ha ha ha!'Ha ha,' agreed Moist.Ha hah hah!,' said Hubert. 'Hahahahahaha!! Ahahahahahahhhhh!!!!!-'Bent slapped him on the back. Hubert coughed.Sorry about that, it's the air down here,' he mumbled."
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