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"Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful."
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"Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action."
"Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general."
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