{"id":139888,"date":"2015-08-23T09:58:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T09:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/23\/what-is-your-favourite-quote\/"},"modified":"2015-08-23T09:58:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T09:58:26","slug":"what-is-your-favourite-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/23\/what-is-your-favourite-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2764 :what is your favourite quote?"},"content":{"rendered":"

jabberwockypie<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Oh. \u00a0Oh, man. \u00a0See, I can come up with a Discworld quote for almost any occasion.<\/p>\n

One of the very best is definitely:<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.<\/p>\n

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.<\/p>\n

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that\u2019d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years\u2019 time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.<\/p>\n

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes \u2018Boots\u2019 theory of socioeconomic unfairness<\/p>\n

\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026William wondered why he always disliked people who said \u2018no offense meant.\u2019 Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say \u2018no offense meant\u2019 than actually to refrain from giving offense.\u201d \u201c \u00a0-The Truth<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/p>\n

\u201cAh,\u201c said Mr Pin. \u201cRight. I remember. You are concerned citizens.\u201d He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where \u2018traditional values\u2019 meant \u2018hang someone\u2019.\u201d \u00a0-The Truth<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen people say \u201cclearly\u201d something that means there\u2019s a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren\u2019t clear at all.\u201d – The Truth<\/p>\n

\u201c\u201cThere\u2019s no grays, only white that\u2019s got grubby. I\u2019m surprised you don\u2019t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That\u2019s what sin is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a lot more complicated than that\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo. It ain\u2019t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they\u2019re getting worried that they won\u2019t like the truth. People as things, that\u2019s where it starts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, I\u2019m sure there are worse crimes\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut they starts with thinking about people as things\u2026\u201d\u201d \u00a0-Carpe Jugulum<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u201cAll he knew was that you couldn\u2019t hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that\u2019d make the world, in a small way, a better place.\u201c – The Fifth Elephant<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

jabberwockypie: Oh. \u00a0Oh, man. \u00a0See, I can come up with a Discworld quote for almost any occasion. One of the very best is definitely: \u201c \u201cThe reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. … <\/p>\n

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