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"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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"The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own."

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"A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict."


"It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department."


"The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength."


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"That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar."
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