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- Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
- Charles Peters
- The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
- Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005), Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979
- I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
- John Cleese (1939 - )
- Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- The big thieves hang the little ones.
- Czech Proverb
- A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
- W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
- Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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