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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
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"A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it."
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"The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take."
Opportunity
"A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn."
Organization
"Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married."
Man
"In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want."
Politics
"Expenditures rise to meet income."
Income
"Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse."
Planning
"The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved."
Time
"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom."
Society
"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
Time
"When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body."
Power
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