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"The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine."
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"Lefever describes his financing plan with modesty:"'Our detailed budget is realistic, but does not take into account the inflation that may occur before September 1983. The one place it could cut or reduce is item 7, the simultaneous interpreter services, if these services could be provided gratis by the U.S. government.'""In other words, the only way to make a saving on a U.S.-subsidized project is to take money out of another U.S.-subsidized column."
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"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."
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"Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy."
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"The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine."
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"If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork."
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"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."
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"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency."
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"Now, come over here so I can pat you down.""But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure."He stood next to the armless statue. Terminus conducted a rigorous mental pat down."You seem to be clean," Terminus decided. "Do you have anything to declare?""Yes," Percy said. "I declare that this is stupid."
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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."
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"I believe in opening mail once a month, whether it needs it or not."
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"We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours."
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"The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses."
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"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time."
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"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
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"The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind."
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"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power."
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"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."
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"The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it."
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"All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions."
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"The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself."
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