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    In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in the cultural field. By frustrating the scribe's craving for commanding action, the trader draws upon himself the scribe's wrath and scorn.

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The 1990s customer expects service to be characterized by fast and efficient computer-based systems.

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The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

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Only the little people pay taxes.

Only the little people pay taxes.

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In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal read more

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Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow read more

Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.

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The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of read more

The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.

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Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only read more

Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.

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All currency is neurotic currency.

All currency is neurotic currency.

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Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.

Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.

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