Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it … - John Ralston Saul

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Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.

John Ralston Saul

Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.

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Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

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The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. . . . Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level of shared disinterest known as the public good.

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Born in elevators and supermarkets, Muzak has spread to restaurants, hotels, airplanes, telephone hold services, and waiting rooms. The public-relations experts believe that human beings fear silence - that is, the absence of constantly imposed direction. It is further believed that if we can be relieved of our fears, we will gain enough self-confidence to buy, eat, vote, fly, or simply go on living.

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A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political -the foreigner may also be pitied from a distance for a short period of time.

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Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

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We pass our values, ideas and moral character on to our children, but we do that knowing that our children are going to revise our knowledge and reshape their values. There's something very paradoxical and profound about being a parent as opposed to parenting. We put in all this effort and energy not so that we can shape a child of a particular sort, but so that all sorts of possibilities can happen in the future.

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Social conservatives say who drives the bus.

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Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?

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I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.

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