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  1. Shirley Hazzard _ People in Glass Houses

    Nothing, Ismet thought, makes a more fanatical official than a Latin. Organization is alien to their natures, but once they get a taste for it they take to it like drink. They claim to be impulsive, but they're the most bureaucratic of all, whatever they say.
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  2. Shirley Hazzard _ People in Glass Houses

    Although exalted in Organizational rank, they were not remarkable men. First-class minds, being interested in the truth, tend to select other first-class minds as companions. Second-class minds, on the other hand, being interested in themselves, will select third-class comrades in order to maintain the illusion of superiority.
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  3. Shirley Hazzard _ People in Glass Houses

    He worked in Interim Reports, before being upgraded to Annual Reports.
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  4. Shirley Hazzard _ People in Glass Houses

    Chief Coordinator of DALTO – the Department of Aid to the Less technically Oriented, working to induce backwards nations to come forwards.
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  5. Shirley Hazzard _ People in Glass Houses

    Svoboda was not a brilliant man. He was a man of what used to be known as average and is now known as above-average intelligence.
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