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ddedfab
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"Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you." "Sir?" "It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority." "Sir?" "That's practically zen." --
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terry-pratchett
feet-of-clay
prachett
sam-vimes
zen
samuel-vimes
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a0bbc62
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Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.
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commander
sam-vimes
innocent
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cf1cb11
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It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities. You worked away, patiently asking questions and looking hard at things. You walked and talked, and in your heart you just hoped like hell that some bugger's nerve'd crack and he'd give himself up.
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terry-pratchett
vimes
pratchett
feet-of-clay
sam-vimes
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Terry Pratchett |
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e89bcc1
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"I assure you I will not kill you," said Inigo. "I know that," said Vimes. "But will you try?"
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terry-pratchett
sam-vimes
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Terry Pratchett |
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1f6da9c
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Odd thing, ain't it... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls.
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sam-vimes
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Terry Pratchett |
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e0808f3
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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.
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war
sam-vimes
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Terry Pratchett |
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2a742c7
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I'm not a natural
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peacekeeping
sam-vimes
police
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Terry Pratchett |
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2c10421
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It was, he felt, a persistent flaw in his wife's otherwise practical and sensible character that she believed, against all evidence, that he was a man of many talents. He he had hidden depths. There was nothing in them that he'd like to see float to the surface. They contained things that should be left to lie.
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the-beast
sam-vimes
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Terry Pratchett |