"Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition."

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Source : Chester Irving Barnard (1968). “The Functions of the Executive”, p.5, Harvard University Press

Chester Barnard

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“They say in that book (Keneally's Schindler's List) that I gave the Jews the food in their mouths. I never had time to find out who was sick and who had to be fed (by hand). I am no good as a nurse, I tell you frankly. I have no talent for nursing . . . I bought the food for everyone.”
“The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after. We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st”
“No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.”
“I have great love for St. Joseph, because he is a man of silence and strength. On my table I have a statue of St. Joseph sleeping. Even when he is asleep, he is taking care of the church! Yes! We know that he can do that. So when I have a problem, a difficulty, I write a little note and I put it underneath St. Joseph, so that he can dream about it! In other words I tell him: pray for this problem!”
“Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.”
“Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.”

Source : Delmore Schwartz (1989). “Last & Lost Poems”, p.16, New Directions Publishing
“We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.”
“No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created!”

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