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“... capacitatea de adaptare a aristocrației s-a manifestat în capacitatea ei de a “nu discuta” și de a “sluji”. Discutau intelectualii – aristocrații au dovedit neașteptate disponibilități pentru muncă. Poate știuseră cîndva să se țină în șa și să sărute mîinile femeilor, dar nu trebuie să uităm niciodată că au reprezentat o clasă, că au avut un caracter de clasă. Filozofia, etica și morala lor le erau atribuite prin naștere, și dacă acestea aparțineau clasei lor, ei nu trebuiau să cheltuiască nici forțe spirituale, nici forțe fizice pentru a-și forma convingeri și principii ... Ei puteau să îndeplinească o funcție, să execute ordine, conducîndu-se după ideile cinstei și datoriei, fără să intre în conflict cu conștiința lor. Aceasta este capacitatea de care au dat ei dovadă. N-au acceptat nimic din schimbările survenite, dar au continuat să trăiască într-o lume schimbată, pentru a păstra măcar acele trăsături care le erau caracteristice, inerente structurii lor ... precum: cinstea, principialitatea, respectarea cuvîntului dat, noblețea, onoarea, curajul, dreptatea, stăpînirea de sine... Ei au pierdut totul, însă aceste trăsături ar fi dorit să le piardă în ultimul rînd: erau însăși natura lor.”

AristocracyAccomodationAristocratieAdaptare
Book:Pushkin House
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“Have a seat right here, ma'am! Please watch your step. If you'll have a seat, I'll bring your food to you." "Thank you! It's so nice that you have a restaurant that can accommodate our baby stroller." "Would you like me to bring you a spoon, along with chopsticks?" "Please! That would be great." "Oh my gosh, that girl isn't the shrinking violet she looks like either! That is some confident and conscientious service for someone her age!" "The ideal for customer service is 100 percent satisfaction from all customers... but the reality of limited time and manpower makes it difficult. When things are at their most crowded, you must calm yourself... Consider everything a customer may want, and then prioritize what is most important for whom!" "Now is when I have to make the best use of everything I learned over Stagiare Week!”

Customer ServiceMegumi TadokoroAccomodation
Book:食戟のソーマ 16 [Shokugeki no Souma 16]
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“We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why else would we all — by proxies we have given to greedy corporations and corrupt politicians — be participating in its destruction? Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us. How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.”

PoliticsLiberalismAmerican CultureClass WarfarePlutocracyRight Wing OppressionAux Armes CitoyensRight Wing Thuggery
Author:Wendell Berry
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“The name Atlantis came from an old book Victoria had never read. A lifetime residency in the ASM paradise was rumored to cost anywhere from 15 to 20 million dollars. The rich and powerful lived under the dome because they considered themselves separate and superior. Few of them left the comfort and security of Atlantis. To them the outside world was weak. Second Sector citizens where miscreant dregs of a defunct society. In order to enter the Atlantian dome one first had to be cleared by a resident. Gate security personnel strictly enforced this rule, even when outsiders carried a badge and gun.”

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Book:Atlas
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“Democracy is popular because of the illusion of choice and participation it provides, but when you live in a society in which most people’s knowledge of the world extends as far as sports, sitcoms, reality shows, and celebrity gossip, democracy becomes a very dangerous idea. Until people are properly educated and informed, instead of indoctrinated to be ignorant mindless consumers, democracy is nothing more than a clever tool used by the ruling class to subjugate the rest of us.”

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Author:Gavin Nascimento
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