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"But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested."
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"I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious."
"The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine."
"If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork."
"The only problem that ever really seems to bother empire builders is bureaucracy. Before a new colony on the frontier could be founded, the Senate and Triumvirate would have to pass the plan. Factors influencing the High Lords decision would include, among others, the number of people needed to found the colony and whether this would result in any significant population shift. Another, more critical factor would be whether Tactical Defense could spare the ships or the manpower to patrol the area."
"Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy."
"Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records."
"Taxes for people with too much damned time on their hands."
"Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling."
"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."
"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency."
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"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."
"My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves."
"Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends."
"The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless."
"Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an explanation of circumstance that shaped the Rainbow People. Stroll around the old downtown and it's impossible not to be affected by the trials and tribulations of the struggle. But, in many ways, it is the sense of triumph in the face of such adversity that makes the experience all the more poignant."
"I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand."
"The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess."
"The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia's Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was a ghost train, he said, haunted by ghouls, Thuggees, and thieves. Only a passenger with a death wish would go anywhere near it."
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