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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
"English: Societies that made it a habit in finding ways to live comfortably without working, learning, tiring are convicted to first loose their dignity, then their liberty, and then their future.
Türkçe: Çalışmadan, öğrenmeden, yorulmadan rahat yaşamanın yollarını alışkanlık haline getirmiş milletler; evvela haysiyetlerini, sonra hürriyetlerini ve daha sonra da istikballerini kaybetmeye mahkumdurlar." -- Mustafa Kemal Atatürkx
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." -- Benjamin Franklinx
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -- Galileo Galileix
"There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." -- Ali ibn Abi Talibx
Modern
"Science is a systematic reduction of ignorance." -- Adam Savagex
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." -- Steve Wozniakx
"In general, I find the {{fact}} tagging to be overdone in Wikipedia. A better option is to nuke the unsourced material. Sometimes {{fact}} is warranted, I don't mean that it is always a bad idea. But it is overdone." -- Jimmy Walesx
"When it looks like somebody is saying something utterly stupid or insane, try to figure out why, from their point of view, it might seem reasonable to say such a thing." -- Nick Mathewsonx
"I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day. But I don't trust coincidences." -- Elim Garakx
"Well, it's just that lately I've noticed that everyone seems to trust me. It's quite unnerving, I'm still trying to get used to it. Next thing I know people are going to be inviting me to their homes for dinner!" -- Elim Garakx
"It has been my observation that one of the prices of giving people freedom of choice is that sometimes they make the wrong choice." -- Odox
"All the world's a wiki, and all the men and women merely editors: they perform their edits and their reverts; and one user in his time edits many pages, his progression being seven levels." -- Wikisphere
This user does not wish to speak or hear dumbass, but is resigned to the necessity of at least understanding it in an environment of massive collaboration.