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I followed upon snips of Witches (not my genre) but was immediately struck by the similarity of his definition style to that of HG2G Hitchhikers,,,, and its SF theme as shown by Vonnegut 5 years earlier than discworld
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3. “This planet has—or rather had—a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.” — Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad)
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