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Looking at this insolent earth,
you hear the first battle cry of our species-
trap it under a rock
and together, screaming, attack
and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.
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At eighteen you don't think about memories,
you tell them.
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At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot
and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.
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In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men
Frederick Winslow Taylor
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Born:
January 15, 1902
Died:
June 3, 1963
(aged 61)
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