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“It is absolutely vital that appropriate levels of intrusive micromanagement, divisive paranoia, bullying, and the threat of arbitrary punishments are maintained, so that we can truly re-create the folkways of the past. Also a propensity for calling meetings at regular, and indeed irregular, intervals.
Adam, and what is the end purpose of all this work we are seeing?
Uncharles, there is none. This is also believed to be historically authentic.”
― Service Model
Adam, and what is the end purpose of all this work we are seeing?
Uncharles, there is none. This is also believed to be historically authentic.”
― Service Model
“providing very high levels of service coupled with a very low, albeit nonzero, level of murder.”
― Service Model
― Service Model
“What sent them to the bottom wasn’t my so-called errors of judgement, or my so-called lack of humanity or my so-called incapacity to get my head round their suffering.”
― Small Boat
― Small Boat
“Can you not see the difference between an irresponsible pleasure tripper and a dinghy full of migrants? It was not the most wellmeaning question, but actually it was quite easy to answer because my profession requires us to make no distinction, so that’s what I said, and that I should be congratulated for not making one: you rescue everyone without distinction. Should I be more intent on saving some more than others?”
― Small Boat
― Small Boat
“We're all inadequate, weak and ordinary beings. But because we're capable of being kind, for a moment - no matter how fleeting - we can be extraordinary.”
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