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"There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant."

"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."

"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."

"I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him."

"Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him."

"Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch."

"I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible."
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"But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes."


"Because the better an organization is at fulfilling its purpose, the more it attracts people who see the organization as an opportunity to advance themselves."


"Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail."


"One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions."


"Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful."


"As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out."


"It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous."
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