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"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."
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"Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy."
"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."
"If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork."
"Big Government' is a lot less like a 'Big Brother', and a lot more like a mother-in-law."
"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."
"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."
"Taxes for people with too much damned time on their hands."
"Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records."
"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."
"I believe in opening mail once a month, whether it needs it or not."
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"Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret."
"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."
"I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self."
"When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans."
"If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad."
"Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a "work" of man."
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