Part of the training of a Special Circumstances agent was learning a) that the rules were supposed to be broken sometimes, b) just how to go about breaking the rules, and c) how to get away with it, whether the rule breaking had led to a successful outcome or not.
Matter, Iain M. Banks
Orbit Books, 2008
978-1-84149-418-0
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