{"id":33740,"date":"2016-01-03T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33740"},"modified":"2015-12-16T20:48:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T01:48:13","slug":"qotd-another-ten-selected-terry-pratchett-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/01\/03\/qotd-another-ten-selected-terry-pratchett-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Another ten selected Terry Pratchett quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

41<\/strong> Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.<\/p>\n

42<\/strong> Pets are always a help in times of stress. And in times of starvation, too, of course.<\/p>\n

43<\/strong> Captain Quirke was not actually a bad man; he didn\u2019t have the imagination; but he dealt more in the generalised low-grade unpleasantness which slightly tarnishes the soul of all who come into contact with it \u2013 rather like British Rail.<\/p>\n

44<\/strong> Goodness is about what you do. Not what you pray to.<\/p>\n

45<\/strong> The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.<\/p>\n

46<\/strong> They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.<\/p>\n

47<\/strong> Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.<\/p>\n

48<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

49<\/strong> I commend my soul to any God that can find it.<\/p>\n

50<\/strong> So much universe, and so little time.<\/p>\n

Selected by Martin Chilton for The Telegraph<\/em><\/a>, 2015-08-27.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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