“People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.”

― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

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“You’re just a bully who found it easier and easier and decided that everybody else wasn’t really a REAL person, not like you, and when you know that, there’s no crime too big, is there?”

― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

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(gee, I wonder if we have any current examples of this...)

"There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do."

- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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"That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means 'private law.'
Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it."

- Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

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"You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favor, and to protect the innocent. That's all they put in. [...] Nothing in there about orders. You're an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government."

-Terry Pratchett, NIght Watch

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"History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow.
Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders."

-Terry Pratchett, Jingo

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No need for this AI slop.

Well looks like we know who's going to be the Taskmaster if they ever try to do another US version

Me, acknowledging this truth while also admiring my pocket knife collection: "I just think they're neat"