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"I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious."
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"The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine."
"Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records."
"Funding for the Special Operations Network comes directly from the government. Most work is centralized, but all of the SpecOps divisions have local representatives to keep a watchful eye on any provincial problems. They are administered by local commanders, who liaise with the national offices for information exchange, guidance and policy decisions. Like any other big government department, it looks good on paper but is an utter shambles. Petty infighting and political agendas, arrogance and sheer bloody-mindedness almost guarantees that the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing."
"It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure."
"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."
"Taxes for people with too much damned time on their hands."
"If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork."
"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."
"Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling."
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"Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family."
"I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside."
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