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As the father of five children, with three daughters, I'm pretty fired up to have the first woman president of the United States.


Terry McAuliffe

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TERRY PRATCHETT The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord."
Vetinari looked at his secretary in surp...
TERRY PRATCHETT [And there was the matter of Dick Turpin. It looked like the same car, except that forever afterward...
TERRY PRATCHETT Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
TERRY PRATCHETT Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still aliv...
TERRY PRATCHETT You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Drag...
TERRY PRATCHETT A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand...
TERRY PRATCHETT Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused a...
TERRY PRATCHETT Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet...
TERRY PRATCHETT I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any th...
TERRY PRATCHETT Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are mi...
TERRY PRATCHETT It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
TERRY PRATCHETT Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new ...
TERRY PRATCHETT If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know whe...
TERRY PRATCHETT We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves ...
TERRY HANDS I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happ...
QUINLAN TERRY The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.
TERRY RILEY