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  1. Richard E. Neustadt _ Presidential Power and the

    They will not be identical unless by chance: human prediction about other humans is not good enough. Why that is sometimes hard for readers inexperienced in government to see, I cannot tell {xvi}.
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  2. Richard E. Neustadt _ Presidential Power and the

    For reasons I find hard to fathom, readers with government {Harvard?} experience follow my argument more easily that do some of those for whom it remains theoretical. {xv}
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  3. Richard E. Neustadt _ Presidential Power and the

    The United States was no longer the overwhelming military power in the world, no longer sure of never losing wars. no longer confident of having learned how to maintain employment and to check inflation, no longer reveling in resource independence, technological supremacy, favorable exchange rates, and the privileged life abroad. {xiii}
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  4. Richard E. Neustadt _ Presidential Power and the

    Weakness is still what I see: weakness in the sense of a great gap between what is expected of a man {or someday woman} and assured capacity to carry through. Expectations arise and clerkly tasks increase, while prospects for sustained support from any quarter worsen as foreign alliances loosen and political parties wane.
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  5. Richard E. Neustadt _ Presidential Power and the

    Power I defined as personal influence of an effective sort on governmental action."
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  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau _ The Social Contract

    If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau _ The Social Contract

    In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.
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  8. Leo Tolstoy _ The Kingdom of God Is Within

    All the methods of appointing authorities that have been tried, divine right, and election, and heredity, and balloting, and assemblies and parliaments and senate-all have proved ineffectual. Everyone knows that not one of these methods attains the aim either of entrusting power only to the incorruptible, or of preventing power from being abused. Everyone knows on the contrary that men in authority-be they emperors, ministers, governors, or police officers-are always, simply from the possession of power, more liable to be demoralized, that is, to subordinate public interests to their personal aims than those who have not the power to do so. Indeed, it could not be otherwise.
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  9. Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina

    In my considered opinion, salary is payment for goods delivered and it must conform to the law of supply and demand. If, therefore, the fixed salary is a violation of this law - as, for instance, when I see two engineers leaving college together and both equally well trained and efficient, and one getting forty thousand while the other only earns two thousand , or when lawyers and hussars, possessing no special qualifications, are appointed directors of banks with huge salaries - I can only conclude that their salaries are not fixed according to the law of supply and demand but simply by personal influence. And this is an abuse important in itself and having a deleterious effect on government service.
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  10. Bill Bryson _ At Home: A Short History of

    Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials tried to figure out how to classify it.
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  11. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience and Other

    Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse. Why is it not more apt to anticipate and provide for reform? Why does it not cherish its wise minority? Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt? Why does it not encourage its citizens to be on the alert to point out its faults, and do better than it would have them?
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  12. Mark Dunn _ Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in

    We must respect that silence and make our decisions and judgments based upon science and fact and simple old-fashioned common sense - a commodity absent for too long from those in governmental elevatia, where its employ would do us all much good.
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