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“Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.”
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“It is always winter when I am away from you ...”
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“People left him to his sorrow as a man is left to an incurable habit, an unfortunate tie: they ignored it, or looked over its head if they happened to catch a glimpse of it at his elbow.”
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“The military influence on business is morphologic; it relates to the form and structure of organization, considered apart from function. The functions of private industry — the everyday operations — are governed by another formula which has its genesis in a more familiar though not unrelated activity — team sports.”
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“Sometimes, you know, you have to cause trouble to end trouble.”
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“Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.”
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“Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? And which does the most mischief Heaven only knows. If people can say, 'Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.”
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“To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.”