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Dissent is the most valuable and unappreciated commodity on the market. Some people won't go along with any system, no matter what it is. The race is a ring with a couple of degrees missing, like a pressurewasher that can never be closed. That's why we didn't freeze into a bee-hive or anthill back in prehistory somewhere. They're why.
About Mel Olson
Nobody can combine those two disperates of literature and politics-----nobody'd be fool enough to try-----without some radical shift, that is, and probably not anyway. But there are things that need to be said and can't be as straight exposition, in that language of what I call "that town" on the Potomic, shorthand for the political conversation, where everybody's bundled up and tied down like Gulliver by an army of can'ts and shoulds...
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The best employee you can have is a dedicated enemy. All you have to do is to persuade them that they’re working to your hurt, and they’ll be absolutely tireless in their efforts. Moiling and boiling away night and day to your advantage. Mirabile visu! You don’t even have to pay ‘em wages.——That for epigraph.
