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He may not understand a lot about life in this world, but he still understands this, because it is axiomatic to his very identity as an Israelite: life is good, because it comes from the good God our Creator.
Hearing the Message of Ecclesiastes
Christopher J. H. Wright
There is a psychological term called the iron law of oligarchy, which says that, as soon as you give an institution power, it will begin to obsess about itself rather than the people it is supposed to serve.
Accelerating Performance
Colin Price, Sharon Toye
Institutions are products of the past process, are adapted to past circumstances, and are therefore never in full accord with the requirements of the present. In the nature of the case, this process of selective adaptation can never catch up with the progressively changing situation in which the community finds itself at any given time; for the environment, the situation, the exigencies of life which enforce the adaptation and exercise the selection, change from day to day; and each successive situation of the community in its turn tends to obsolescence as soon as it has been established.
Theory of the Leisure Class
Thorstein Veblen
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