Thomas Sowell Quotes
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
Thomas Sowell
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How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House.
M. E. W. Sherwood
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The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.
D. H. Lawrence
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Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.
William Klein
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When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, helps others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.
J. M. Roberts
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To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.
William Shakespeare
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Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.
Diane Ackerman
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I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.
Serena Williams
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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition.
Anne Carson
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I think there's definitely billions and billions in waste, fraud and abuse. There's billions that can be generated in the economy by eliminating the bureaucracy.
Sean Hannity
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I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.
Philip Caputo
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The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it.
Frank Muir