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'Is It Frightening To Be Free?'
'You said it.' 'You Say To People "Throw Off Your Chains" And They Make New Chains For Themselves?' 'Seems to be a major human activity, yes.' (FC)
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It was such a relief to be right, even though you knew you'd only got there by trying every possible way to be wrong. (FC)
'Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk ...' (FC)
'No one can be as sane as he is without being mad.' (FC)
They were men who felt that The Time Had Come. Regimes can survive barbarian hordes, crazed terrorists and hooded secret societies, but they're in real trouble when prosperous and anonymous men sit around a big table and think thoughts like that. (FC)
What's the good of Clues that are more mysterious than the mystery? (FC)
Igneous had always found the general denial was more reliable than the specific refutation. (FC)
'Oh, it's easy to be happy when you don't know any different....' (FC)
That's rumour for you. If we could modulate it with the truth, how useful it could be .... (FC)
He'd said to the people: you're free. And they said hooray, and then he showed them what freedom costs and they called him a tyrant .... (FC)
Sometimes you needed a bastard. (FC)
... where Nobby went wrong was thinking small. He sidled into places and pinched things that weren't worth much. If only he'd sidled into continents and stolen entire cities, slaughtering many of the inhabitants in the process, he'd have been a pillar of the community. (FC)
'You are armigerous, Nobby.'
Bobby nodded. 'But I got a special shampoo for it, sir.' (FC) 'They think they want good government and justice for all, Vimes, yet what is it they really crave, deep in their hearts? Only that things go on as normal and tomorrow is pretty much like today.' (FC)
What changed history were the smaller things. Often a few strokes of the pen would go the trick. (FC)
Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants. (GO)
'... if you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.' (GO)
'... I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people...' (GO)
'It's hard enough bein' people as it is, without other people coming and messin' you around.' (GO)
Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you're in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice ... (GO)
'... it's not enough to know what the future is. You have to know what it means.' (GO)'
Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity. (GO)
There are only two ways a child can go with a name like Pippin Galadriel Moonchild, and Pippin had chosen the other way ... (GO)
She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not close up. (GO)
Crowley liked the city in the early mornings. its population consisted almost entirely of people who had proper jobs to do and real reasons for being there, as opposed to the unnecessary millions who trailed in after 8 a.m. (GO)
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