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  • You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. – Garrison Keller

  • When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? – Chuck Palahniuk

  • Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. – Charlotte Whitton

  • A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty. – Rudyard Kipling

  • Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this. – Unknown

  • The animals are not as stupid as one thinks – they have neither doctors nor lawyers. – Unknown

  • Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck. – Terry Pratchett

  • Not a man to mince words. People, yes. But not words. – Terry Pratchett

  • Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the…

  • If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you are…

  • When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that’s a miracle. But of course, if someone is killed by a freak chain of events — the oil spill just there, the safety fence broken just there — that must also be a miracle. Just because it’s not nice doesn’t mean it’s not miraculous. – Terry Pratchett

  • “I Suggest You Take Me And Smash Me And Grind The Bits Into Fragments And Pound The Fragments Into Powder And Mill Them Again To The Finest Dust There Can Be, And I Believe You Will Not Find A Single Atom Of Life-“ “True! Let’s do it!” “However, In Order To Test This Fully, One…