top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
More
"If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible."
Bible
"If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable."
Freedom
"The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate."
Awareness
"How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape."
Freedom
"The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has-from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness."
Independence
"Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar."
Lifestyle
"Stuck in my own trap of writing about a nonsubject, I think I can defend my own self-respect, and also the integrity of a lost girl, by saying two things. First, the trivial doings of Paris Hilton are of no importance to me, or anyone else, and I should not be forced to contemplate them. Second, she should be left alone to lead such a life as has been left to her. If this seems paradoxical, then very well."
Individuality
"Forget it. Never explain, never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't."
Independence
"It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed."
Leadership
"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God."
Humor
bottom of page