The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

Terry Pratchett

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A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.

Terry Pratchett


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Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.

Terry Pratchett


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It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

Terry Pratchett

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[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.

Terry Pratchett


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There will be justice," said Brutha. "If there is no justice, there is nothing.

Terry Pratchett


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Tyrant!

Terry Pratchett


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

Terry Pratchett

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Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.

Terry Pratchett


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It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.

Terry Pratchett


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