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The world is changing and it needs its shepherds and sometimes its butchers.

The thing about being embarrassed is that sooner or later you aren’t, but you remember that you were.

We work as a team or we become separate corpses.

Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium.

You have to … chill, get laid back before you are laid-back and laid down for ever.

And yesterday you never thought about it and after today you don’t know what you would do without it. That was what the technology was doing. It was your slave but, in a sense, it might be the other way round.

'...I am ordering you to make miracles by all means necessary,’ said Vetinari. ‘Do I make my point? I am sure I could make it somewhat pointier.’

...this sort of thing was bound to happen with the railway. It expanded horizons, inside and out, people went looking to find themselves and what they found was somebody else.

Making money is good, but there is no pockets in a shroud.

Something was being stolen from the world without anybody noticing or caring.