Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of a lack of wisdom.

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Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of a lack of wisdom.

-- Terry Pratchett

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Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first and is waiting for it.

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It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.

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One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.

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I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

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I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him.

-- Terry Pratchett

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