"It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power."

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Source : Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

Mary Parker Follett

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“Good grief. If we canâ€™t laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can be left? If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyoneâ€™s feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. We will reach what I call â€œthe lowest common denominator of butthurt.”
“I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man, up there in the charts. And I say, well, what happened? Have they just thought up the real John Lee Hooker, is that it? And I think, well, I won't tell nobody else! I can't help but wonder what happened.”
“You wouldn't be a complete band without a slightly cocky frontman, would you?”
“Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.”
“I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.”
“The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.”

Source : Interview with Hal Varian, www.stephenwolfram.com. 1996.
“We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.”
“It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.”

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