"Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions."
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"I've got certain responsibilities that I have to carry out in a very specific institution and in a specific moment in time."
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"Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution."
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"There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions ."
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"Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it."
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"It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us."
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"Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it."
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"But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about."
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"You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate."
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"I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions."
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"You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism."
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"I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments."
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"No institution will be better than the institutor."
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"I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions."
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"There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how you do that in public institutions."
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"[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings."
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"Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous."
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"Marriage is an institution very safely guarded."
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"Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused."
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"In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions."
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