I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.
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I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of 'Admin.' The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.
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Though we are not now at that strength which in better days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; one equal temper of heroic hearts made weak by time and fate but not in will; To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions
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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.
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I do not now begin,--I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad...
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The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.
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You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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You cannot run away from awareness; you must some time fight it out or perish. And if you be so, why not now and where you stand?
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am not for others, what am I?
And if not now, when?
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Maybe sometime, but not now. George Bush is not ready to be president of the United States.
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People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably --why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work --for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?
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If I am not for myself, who is for me But if I am for my own self only, what am I, and if not now, when
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You cannot run away from a weakness you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand
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A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize th...
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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
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If not us, who? If not now, when?
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