"Let he who would move the world,..." - Quote by Socrates
Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.
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“Accepting a government grant with its accompanying rules is like marrying a girl and finding out her entire family is moving in with you before the honeymoon.”
“Far too much reorganization goes on all the time. Organizitis is like a spastic colon.”
“A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?”