Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
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Mary McCarthy Quote
“There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing. A truth is something that everyone can be shown to know and to have known, as people say, all along.”
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