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Jack Vance

"It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance."

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"It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance."

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"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were."

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"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants."

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"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."

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"It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office."

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"I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5."

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"I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office."

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"I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it."

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