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  1. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    One of the hardest lessons of young Sam’s life had been finding out that the people in charge weren’t in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld No. 29, Night Watch (2002)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/6953…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #nightwatch #samvimes #vimes #behindthecurtain #bureaucracy #chaos #control #government #incharge #officials #planning #power #rulers #thinking

  2. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    Here’s some advice boy. Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions.

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld No. 29, Night Watch [Vimes] (2002)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/3061…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #nightwatch #discworld #vimes #counterrevolution #cycleofviolence #government #history #instability #politicalinstability #politicalviolence #radical #revolution

  3. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    Here’s some advice boy. Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions.

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld No. 29, Night Watch [Vimes] (2002)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/3061…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #nightwatch #discworld #vimes #counterrevolution #cycleofviolence #government #history #instability #politicalinstability #politicalviolence #radical #revolution

  4. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    Here’s some advice boy. Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions.

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld No. 29, Night Watch [Vimes] (2002)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/3061…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #nightwatch #discworld #vimes #counterrevolution #cycleofviolence #government #history #instability #politicalinstability #politicalviolence #radical #revolution

  5. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    Here’s some advice boy. Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions.

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld No. 29, Night Watch [Vimes] (2002)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/3061…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #nightwatch #discworld #vimes #counterrevolution #cycleofviolence #government #history #instability #politicalinstability #politicalviolence #radical #revolution

  6. "What a Fool Believes" is a song written by #MichaelMcDonald and #KennyLoggins and first recorded and released by Loggins on his 1978 album #Nightwatch. The best-known version was recorded by the American #rock band #theDoobieBrothers (with McDonald singing lead vocals) for their eighth album #MinuteByMinute (1978). Debuting at number 73 on January 20, 1979, the single reached number 1 on the #Billboard #Hot100 on April 14, 1979, for one week.
    youtube.com/watch?v=dJe1iUuAW4M

  7. Night Watch, Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642

    Do zoom in! And in, and in, and IN some more. 🔍 😃

    "This is the largest and most detailed photo ever taken of a work of art. It is 717 gigapixels, or 717,000,000,000 pixels, in size.

    The distance between two pixels is 5 micrometres (0.005 millimetre), which means that one pixel is smaller than a human red blood cell.

    The team used a 100-megapixel Hasselblad H6D 400 MS-camera to make 8439 individual photos measuring 5.5cm x 4.1cm. Artificial intelligence was used to stitch these smaller photographs together to form the final large image, with a total file size of 5.6 terabytes."

    #Art #NightWatch #Rembrandt #Photography #Hasselblad #SizeMatters

    rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/oper