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The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever.
Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959)
Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.
Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959)
In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.
Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959)
No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil.
Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959)
Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.
Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959)
The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man is not just a biological and psychological being but also a spiritual being, that is creature, and existing for the purposes of his Creator and subject to Him.
Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959)
[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure."
Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959)