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Order 4: "In the event of the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) being incapacitated, overall GAR command shall fall to the vice chair of the Senate until a successor is appointed or alternative authority identified as outlined in Section 6 (iv)."
Order 5: "In the event of the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) being declared unfit to issue orders, as defined in Section 6 (ii), the Chief of the Defense Staff shall assume GAR command and form a strategic cell of senior officers (see page 1173, para 4) until a successor is appointed or alternative authority identified."
Order 37: Capture of a single wanted individual through the mass arrest and threatened execution of a civilian population. Follow-up directives include scenarios for body disposal of civilian casualties and suppression of communications.
Order 65: "In the event of either (i) a majority in the Senate declaring the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) to be unfit to issue orders, or (ii) the Security Council declaring him or her to be unfit to issue orders, and an authenticated order being received by the GAR, commanders shall be authorized to detain the Supreme Commander, with lethal force if necessary, and command of the GAR shall fall to the acting Chancellor until a successor is appointed or alternative authority identified as outlined in Section 6 (iv)."
Order 66: "In the event of Jedi officers acting against the interests of the Republic, and after receiving specific orders verified as coming directly from the Supreme Commander (Chancellor), GAR commanders will remove those officers by lethal force, and command of the GAR will revert to the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) until a new command structure is established."
— Contingency Orders for the Grand Army of the Republic, Star Wars: Republic Commando -- True Colors

School Rule 16: "No boy is to keep a crocodile in his room."
Followed by rules 16a to 16j to counter various forms of Loophole Abuse, from the obvious ("16a. No boy is to keep an alligator or any large amphibious reptile in his room"; "16c. Nor in the cellar.") to the outlandish ("16h. No boy is to convert to Offlerismnote  without permission in writing from the Head Master.").
School Rule 145: "No boy is to enter the room of any girl."
School Rule 146: "No girl is to enter the room of any boy."
School Rule 147: (provisional) : "It has been pointed out that our injunction to 'read boys for girls, and vice versa', can, if taken together with the two previous rules by someone with little to do but argue, mean that no pupil is to be in any room at all. This was not the intention. No pupil is to be anywhere except where they should be. A girl is defined as a young person of the female persuasion."
School Rule 148: "Regardless of how persuaded he feels, Jelks Minor in Form IV is a boy."
School Rule 149: Arguing over the wording of school rules is forbidden."
— rules of the Assassin's Guild School, Discworld

"It would be wise to allow the Human to finish. For doth not the Thirteenth Word of Odo'Ital state that 'Information is key to any endeavour'?"
"Science Bekk Min'tak'allan, it would be wise to exercise some caution in this enterprise. For doth not the Twenty-Ninth Word of Odo'Ital say 'The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy—no more, no less.'?"
"I recommend giving this mission your all, Admiral. For doth not the Seventeenth Word of Odo'Ital say 'You can't know that you can't do something until you've given it your very best effort.'?"
"Admiral, remember your therapy. For the Sixth Word of Odo'Ital sayeth 'Every life is precious. Do not spend your own save to spare another.'"
"They appear to have made a tactical miscalculation by underestimating our numbers and strength, though. This will be their undoing. For doth not the Miscellaneous Words of Odo'Ital state "When possible, avoid attacking targets that outnumber or otherwise prove stronger than you."?"

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