“A Reichsbank president who was totally ignorant of what went in and out of the vaults of his bank.”
Walther Funk (1890–1960) German economist and politician
Robert H. Jackson
“The commander went, as they say in Ankh-Morpork, totally Librarian on them.”
— Terry Pratchett, book Raising Steam
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