Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If … - Jessica Mitford

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A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department. . . they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.

Jessica Mitford

Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it doesn't mean regurgitating, it means ill. Mad means angry, not insane. Don't ask for the left-luggage; it's called a checkroom.

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You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

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Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

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