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"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."
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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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"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency."
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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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"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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"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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"Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech."
Language
"There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity..."
Innovation
"Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature."
Satire
"Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs."
Madness
"The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor."
Reality
"There's more to good or bad than what's written in the Rulebook."
Ethics
"Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands."
Conflict
"How about this,' I said. 'We modify our plans with regard to ongoing facts as they become known to us, then remodify them as the situation unfolds. 'You mean make it all up as we go along?' asked Perkins.'Right."
Adaptability
"Never underestimate the capacity for romance, no matter what the circumstances."
Romance
"The known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow."
Mystery
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