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"We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind."Oh, no! You think so?"Yes."But... no... you can't be right. Because Nobby was with us all the time."Not Nobby," said Vimes testily. "Whatever he might do to a dragon, I doubt if he'd make it explode. There's stranger people in this world than Corporal Nobbs, my lad."Carrot's expression slid into a rictus of intrigued horror."Gosh," he said."
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"A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into; the other functions and faculties may be more godlike, but in point of time they come afterwards. A man dies and is buried, and all his words and actions are forgotten, but the food he has eaten lives after him in the sound or rotten bones of his children. I think it could be plausibly argued that changes of diet are more important than changes of dynasty or even of religion....Yet it is curious how seldom the all-importance of food is recognized. You see statues everywhere to politicians, poets, bishops, but none to cooks or bacon-curers or market gardeners."
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"I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image."
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"There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation."
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"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
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"My writings are the window of my soul through which you can see me, feel me, and understand me."
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"The expression of divinity is in variety."
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"Focus on one thing and do not scatter your attention."
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"Psychos are in uniform circulation in society."
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"In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons."
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"When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me."
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"When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown."
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"If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time."
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"In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information."
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"I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself."
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"Ensure that your daily chores, thought, actions, speeches and steps are taken with the purpose of giving you a good brand. Decide to be who God wanted you to be."
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"In their churches the Protestants taught believers to go out of the four walls of the church to demonstrate their love for God by how they serve fellow humans."
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"Preparation will not only fortify your confidence to approach life from a position of strength, but it will impress other people as well."
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"You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others."
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"Faith is the resplendent key that liberates me from the impregnable confines meticulously constructed from the raw material of my disbelief."
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"My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people."
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"Only hard work will make you prosper."
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"I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort."
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"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."
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"When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space."
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"Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food."
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"What have you done to qualify yourself for the miracles you are expecting."
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"The fights are always the same."
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"It's your duty to build your brand daily not in a day."
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"As you navigate the various zones with people, a variety of specific physical and psychological responses are elicited from them. Until you know someone, avoid invading his or her personal space. Getting closer gradually demonstrates that you like the other person. This gradual and comfortable approach begins the circle of rapport-he sees that you like him, he likes that you like him, and he reciprocates by liking you back."
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"He who fails to understand that one should prepare for every single blessing will reap the problems connected with lack of preparation before the blessing."
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