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Esk, of course, had not been trained, and it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you’re attempting can’t be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a halfbrick in the path of the bicycle of history.
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett (via aliveinquotes)Posted on May 4, 2012 via Alive in Quotes with 33 notes
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Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them – when she thought about them at all – as coming somewhere between animals and people. She understood babies. You put milk in one end and kept the other end as clean as possible. Adults were even easier, because they did the feeding and cleaning themselves. But in between was a world of experience that she had never really enquired about. As far as she was aware, you just tried to stop them catching anything fatal and hoped that it would all turn out all right.
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
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first-generation american // aesthete
postpostpostpost-dadaist // introvert
recovering grammar nazi // autodidact
andalusian cadence fan // tea drinker
--------------------- // symbol lover
borderline egomaniac // -------------
gluttonous bookworm // whimsy devotee
dissonance admirer // college dropout
nonsense champion // data gormandizer
irony aficionado // serial cat petter
singularitarian // ------------------
-------------- // rubik's cube solver
binge thinker // homo sapiens sapiens
tower seeker // arch linux power user
slytherclaw // mostly chaotic neutral
toposopher // dependent type advocate
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polyglot // computational trinitarian
blogger // quantum computer scientist
------ // wannabe general ai designer
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