Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them - Terry Pratchett - Quotesmemo.com

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Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.

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Terry Pratchett

Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them

Feet, Scythe, Scythes, Skeleton, Skeletons, Telling

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There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.

Becomes, Change, Past, Present, Turns, Wells

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Dangerous, Funny, Ignorance, Learning, Say

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Caves, Humor, Inspirational, Paint, Possible, Sign

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

Beginning, Exploded, Humorous, Lords And Ladies, Nothing, Science

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

Believe, Errors, Evolving, Natural, Organic, Science

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Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.

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