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Unseen academic wisdom (1)

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

Dit is het einde van deze serie spreuken. Co is gisteren teruggekeerd bij Ka in Nederland, na een hele goede, leerzame en productieve tijd in Oxford is hij nu weer fijn terug bij Ka.

Unseen academic wisdom (2)

“It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.”

Unseen academic wisdom (3)

“There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”

Unseen academic wisdom (4)

“It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever,' he said. 'Have you though of going into teaching?”

Unseen academic wisdom (5)

“...it's true that some if the most terrible things in the works are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.”

Unseen academic wisdom (6)

“Despite rumour, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.”

Unseen academic wisdom (7)

“Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away with the spouting whales, monsters, waves and other twiddly bits of cartographic furniture that the often forgot to put the boring mountains and rivers in at all.”

Unseen academic wisdom (8)

“IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. 'You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?' YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.”

Unseen academic wisdom (10-9)

“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.”

Unseen academic wisdom (11)

“If you ignore the rules people will, half the time, secretly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.”

Unseen academic wisdom (13-12)

'Oh, you know the sort of thing if you read the papers a lot,' said Ponder. 'I seriously think they think that it is their job to calm people down by first of all explaining why they should be overexcited and very worried.”

Unseen academic wisdom (16-14)

“Miss Tick sniffed. 'You could say this advice is priceless,' she said. 'Are you listening?'
'Yes,' said Tiffany. 'Good. Now ... if you trust in yourself ...'
'Yes?' '... and believe in your dreams ...'
'Yes?' '... and follow your star ...' Miss Tick went on.

'Yes?' '... you'll still get beaten by people who spent THEIR time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. Goodbye.”

Unseen academic wisdom (17)

“Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.”

Unseen academic wisdom (18)

“It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice.”

Unseen academic wisdom (19)

“Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.”

Unseen academic wisdom (20)

"I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.”

Unseen academic wisdom (21)

"Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.”

Unseen academic wisdom (28-22)

“Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.”

Afgelopen week waren Ka en Co samen in Oxford en was er geen tijd om te bloggen. Vanaf vandaag pakken we het weer op.

Unseen academic wisdom (29)

“People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.”