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1 " There's some things we can't think because we don't know the words. "
― Terry Pratchett , Truckers (Bromeliad Trilogy #1)
2 " The way to deal with an impossible task was to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into a group of horribly hard tasks, and each of them into tricky jobs, and each of them... "
3 " The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong but being certain. Of course it helps to be right as well, the Abbot conceeded. "
4 " The monk solved his immediate problem by giving a little whimper and fainting. "
5 " How many books are there?" said Masklin."Hundreds! Thousands!""Do you know what they're all about?"Gurder looked at him blankly. "Do you know what you're saying?" he said."No. But I want to find out.""They're about everything! You'd never believe it! They're full of words even I don't understand!""Can you find a book which tells you how to understand words you don't understand?" said Masklin.Gurder hesitated. "It's an intriguing thought," he said. "
6 " If you ask 10 nomes to push four will pull and two will say pardon "
7 " It was always a good idea, he said, to be good at something other people couldn’t or didn’t want to do. "
8 " I don’t know enough words, he thought. Some things you can’t think unless you know the right words. "
9 " The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong, but being certain. Otherwise people wouldn’t know what to think. Of course, it helps to be right as well, "
10 " the important thing is not how long your life is but how long it seems. "
11 " The sky rained dismal. It rained humdrum. It rained the kind of rain that is so much wetter than normal rain, the kind of rain that comes down in big drops and splats, the kind of rain that is merely and upright sea with slots in it. "
12 " This was one of those times when time itself slowed down and everything was suddenly more real. Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance. "
13 " Why is it that as soon as a nome has all he needs to eat and drink, he starts to bicker with other nomes? There must be more to being a nome than this. "
14 " I’m really not certain about threatening people with antelopes ... "
15 " He had room only for a certain number of ideas in his head, and once one had taken root, you couldn’t budge it. "
16 " They were silent. There wasn’t any room to be noisy. The roar of the engine filled the air from edge to edge. "
17 " The way to deal with an impossible task was to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into a group of horribly hard tasks, and each one of them into tricky jobs, and each one of them . "
18 " I think all we really want is to go home and be safe,” said Masklin. “Go home.” “That’s right.” “And be safe.” “Yes.” Later on, those five words became one of the most famous quotations in nome history. They got taught in schools. They got carved in stone. "