It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.
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The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
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Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.
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He believes, with all his heart and soul and strength, that there is such a thing as truth he has the soul of a martyr with the intellect of an advocate.
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
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