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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. Salvador Dali		Thursday Apr 16, 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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