Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich
It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the numbe

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the worlds total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other peoples, then that must feel pretty good. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Attitude
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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And thats really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So its very different. Youre out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasnt that fascinating. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Science
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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. – Mary McCarthy

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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true. – William Blake

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Bureaucracy

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. – Robert Frost

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Bureaucracy

Endless meetings, sloppy communications and red tape steal the entrepreneurs time. – James L. Hayes

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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say… Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear. – Thomas Carlyle

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I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite. – Henry David Thoreau, journal, 1852 April 2nd

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It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself? – G. W. F. Hegel

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You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a mans actions are, such must be his spirit. – Demosthenes

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