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"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."
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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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"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."
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"Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy."
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"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."
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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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"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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"The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine."
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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 only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency."
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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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"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."
Work
"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."
People
"The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process."
Life
"Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted."
Age
"I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets."
Woman
"The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero."
Writing
"If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad."
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"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."
Movies
"In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons."
Politics
"The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air."
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