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"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."
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"If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork."
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"It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure."
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"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."
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"But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested."
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"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."
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"Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy."
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"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."
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"Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records."
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"Big Government' is a lot less like a 'Big Brother', and a lot more like a mother-in-law."
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"Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling."
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"I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid."
Experience
"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."
Government
"Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue."
Legal
"Never fight an inanimate object."
Fight
"Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us."
Government
"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
America
"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
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"Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce."
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"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going."
Children
"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy."
Government
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