Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
¶ (Attributed)
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Hyman Rickover (1900-1986) US Navy Admiral
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
¶ (Attributed)
quoted in New York Times (3 Nov 1986).
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