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The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

by David Graeber

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“I think Mr. Robert Frost has a little too much time on his hands.”
― Sharon Creech, Love That Dog

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“In the suburbs, a manageable life depends on a compact among neighbors. The unspoken agreement is an honest hypocrisy.”
― D.J. Waldie, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir

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“Inside his house, a kid gets one name, but on the other side of the door, it’s whatever the rest of the world wants to call him.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee

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“Where I live is one of the places where suburban stories were first mass-produced. They were stories then for displaced Okies and Arkies, Jews who knew the pain of exclusion, Catholics who thought they did, and anyone white with a steady job.”
― D.J. Waldie, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir

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“few people would engage in extended activity if they believed that there were a random connection between what they did and the rewards they received,”15 Lerner concluded that “for the sake of their own sanity,” people overestimate the degree to which ability can be inferred from success.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

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