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Most people are not for or against anything the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.
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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Massachusetts
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