"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed...
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
~ Terry Pratchett ~
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Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
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