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Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds. Terry Pratchett

Trust Clouds Complicated Cocktail Immediately Remains Never Clear Perfectly Perfectly Clear Until Goes Any Then Ingredient Last

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. Terry Pratchett

Mind Marks Insane Sign Exclamation Sure Sure Sign Five

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care. Terry Pratchett

Me Care Universe Destroy Fabric See Wrong Prove Go

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. Terry Pratchett

Truth Out Lies Inside Head May Your

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff. Terry Pratchett

Science Clever Enough Trek Incredibly Books Bits Tend Writers Written Stuff Genre Science Fiction Science Fiction Writers Said Real Educational Often Fiction Fiction Writers Cannot Interesting Little Speaking Fill Star Star Trek

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer's. Terry Pratchett

Me Other Point Had Like Knowing Alzheimer Occurred Diseases Two

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone. Terry Pratchett

Alone You People Cancer Old See Seems Feel Makes Alzheimer How Disease Brave Quite Against Fart

For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves. Terry Pratchett

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. Terry Pratchett

You People Amazing Country Research Seven Hundred Thousand Give Dementia How Heard Up Disease Done Listen Public Stand Stand Up Fortunate Who Away Million

Fear is the foundation of safety. Tertullian

Fear Safety Foundation

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing. Tertullian

Freedom You Nothing Out Parcel Pieces Because Cannot

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Angry Man Anger Admit He Wrong Always Gets

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. Thomas Love Peacock

Resource Plenty Scarcity Waste

A bullet can kill the enemy, but a bullet can also produce an enemy, depending on whom that bullet strikes. Tim O'Brien

Enemy Strikes Also Bullet Depending Produce Whom

I carry the memories of the ghosts of a place called Vietnam - the people of Vietnam, my fellow soldiers. Tim O'Brien

Memories People Soldiers Ghosts Carry Fellow Place Vietnam

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. Timothy D. Snyder

Freedom Nothing Abandon Facts True Then Spectacle

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one. Tom Bodett

You Old New Make Friend Old One

The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce. Tom Robbins

Truth You Truth Is Training Dangerous Fear Guilt Young Kids Religious Scarcely Religious Right Brutal Schools Overlook Doing Educating Brains Commerce Wheels Being Children Even Right

Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve. Travis Bradberry

You Yourself Emotions Impossible Challenge Negative Will Power Lose Control Every Think Resolve Every Step Way Easy Ability Step Feel Clearly Overtake Effectively Manage While Them Grit Your Keep Position

Gossipers derive pleasure from other people's misfortunes. It might be fun to peer into somebody else's personal or professional faux pas at first, but over time, it gets tiring, makes you feel gross, and hurts other people. Travis Bradberry

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me. Tucker Max

Me World Narcissist Around Am Very Revolves Much Act Actually

There's still something so pure and heartfelt and emotional and genuine about a bouquet of flowers that, even with all the advances of technology and the millions of ways we have to communicate with each other, flowers are still relevant in my opinion. Vanessa Diffenbaugh

For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call. Vernon Howard

Waiting Problem Confusion Ambition Every Force Call Available Your Desire

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