Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.

- Terry Pratchett
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- Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.
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- The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and...
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- Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it...
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