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• Steal five dollars and you were a petty thief. Steal thousands of dollars and you were either a government or a hero.
• no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.
• A man can learn all of an opponent’s weaknesses on that board,’ said Gilt. ‘Really?’ said Vetinari, raising his eyebrows. ‘Should he not be trying to learn his own?’
• Freedom may be mankind’s natural state, but so is sitting in a tree eating your dinner while it is still wriggling. On the other hand, Freidegger, in Modal Contextities, claims that all freedom is limited, artificial and therefore illusory, a shared hallucination at best. No sane mortal is truly free, because true freedom is so terrible that only t...
• It was the thrill not of the chase but of the standing still, of remaining so calm, composed and genuine that, for just long enough, you could fool the world and spin it on your finger.