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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death,

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

Terry Pratchett
Prayer, Fate, Evil
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

Terry Pratchett
Queens, Fate, Play
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

This is where the gods play games with the lives of men, on a board which is at one and the same time a simple playing area and the whole world. And Fate always wins.

Terry Pratchett
Fate, Winning, Simple
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17)”, p.11, Random House

Fate can be one mean god at times.

Terry Pratchett
Mean, Fate

What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?

Terry Pratchett
Fate, Blow, Knowing
"Reaper Man". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o' fate lashing aroound his netheres wi'out folks telling him he's deid, eh?

Terry Pratchett
Fate, Men, Wind
"A Hat Full of Sky". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2004.

Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice.

Terry Pratchett
Fate, Men, Games
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.16, Random House

SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? “I too cannot be cheated,” snapped Fate.

Terry Pratchett
Fate, Men, Worry

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