I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me. - Terry Pratchett

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Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.

Terry Pratchett

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

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There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.

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They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Caves, Humor, Inspirational, Paint, Possible, Sign

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

Believe, Errors, Evolving, Natural, Organic, Science

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First it's pretty tires. Next it's pretty guns. Then the next thing you know, you're shaving your beard and wearing capri pants.

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Adi Shankara

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Michele Borba

Personal credibility has everything to do with how others perceive us and how we perceive ourselves. Sandy Allgeier’s book teaches the all-important truth that it doesn’t matter how much money, status, or power you have if nobody believes in you. Every parent should read The Personal Credibility Factor and instill its lessons in their kids. Achieving a full understanding of these principles is the first step in becoming a truly great human being.

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Terrell Suggs

You will have to look at the tape. Actually, you could burn the tape. It's not even worth looking at. . . We just have to move on to next week. If we just get the next one we will be fine.

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Hunter S. Thompson

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

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