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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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"It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure."
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"It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money."
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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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"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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"Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy."
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"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."
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"Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records."
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"Big Government' is a lot less like a 'Big Brother', and a lot more like a mother-in-law."
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"Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling."
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"One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests."
Trust
"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience."
Life
"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
Experience
"The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people."
People
"All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain."
Pain
"It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. But it is a great mistake to suppose that he will do this better for being ignorant of the traditions."
Leadership
"Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think."
Knowledge
"Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature."
Philosophy
"He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties."
Self
"Religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every department of human conduct, or by the spirit of Puritanism."
Philosophy
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