Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial …

Terry Pratchett
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Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both. ✨ Terry Pratchett (2008). Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17), p.139, Random House
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Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both. ✨ Terry Pratchett (2008). Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17), p.139, Random House

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