[Ads-l] [QI] We Only Need To Be Lucky One Time. You Need To Be Lucky All the Time

[mr_peter_morris@outlook.com]

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Here's another cite.  A fairly famous one.
Novel: Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett. (1996)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feet_of_Clay_(novel)

https://allnovel.net/feet-of-clay-discworld-19/page-2.html

Head of Police Sam Vimes has just survived an assassination attempt
by the legal Assassins'  Guild.

Upstairs, Vimes pushed open his office door carefully. The Assassins'
Guild played to rules. You could say that about the bastards. It was
terribly bad form to kill a bystander. Apart from anything else, you
wouldn't get paid. So traps in his office were out of the question,
because too many people were in and out of it every day. Even so,
it paid to be careful. Vimes was good at making the kind of rich
enemies who could afford to employ assassins. The assassins had
to be lucky only once, but Vimes had to be lucky all the time.

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