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We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

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In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White House tells us.

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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A.

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California, the department store state.

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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

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The mistakes are all there waiting to be made.

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Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

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