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Not that he distrusts the subordinate; he has learned from experience to distrust communications.
The Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker
5. Learn to clearly see the difference between healthy bad feelings—such as those of sorrow, regret, and frustration—when you do not get some of the important things you want, and unhealthy bad feelings—such as those of depression, anxiety, self-hatred, and self-pity—when you are deprived. Whenever you feel overconcerned (panicked) or needlessly miserable (depressed), admit that you are having a very common but an unhealthy feeling and that you are bringing it on yourself with some dogmatic shoulds, oughts, or musts.
How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable About Anything-Yes, Anything
Albert Ellis
Of 522 articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, and Time during the 1990s that mentioned Agent Orange and Vietnam together, the vast majority focused on the harm done to U.S. service personnel; only nine articles acknowledged the targeting of food crops (thiry-nine mentioned forest cover alone as the target); only eleven discussed in any detail the impact on Vietnamese and the Vietnamese environment; only three characterized the use of Agent Orange as a “chemical weapon” or “chemical warfare;” and in only two articles was it suggested that its use might constitute a war crime.
Manufacturing Consent
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
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