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Majority rule rests on numbers democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.
Mary Parker Follett
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Mary Parker Follett
Age: 65 †
Born: 1868
Born: September 3
Died: 1933
Died: December 18
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The ignoring of differences is the most fatal mistake in politics or industry or international life: every difference that is swept up into a bigger conception feeds and enriches society every difference which is ignored feeds on society and eventually corrupts it.
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I do not think that we have psychological and ethical and economic problems. We have human problems, with psychological, ethical and economical aspects, and as many others as you like.
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Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.
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