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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. Margaret Mead		Wednesday May 06, 2026
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About Gaius Petronius Arbiter

	Gaius Petronius Arbiter
	(d. 66 AD) Roman satirist, novelist, director of entertainments & taste at Neros court.

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What the gods want happens soon. Cito fit quod dii volunt

Reorganize To Create the Illusion of Progress. We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized.

I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

You see a louse on someone else, but not a tick on yourself. In alio pediculum, in te ricinum non vides

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