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   twelvemilesite@gmail.com to All   
   Re: origin of the term "fearless leader"   
   07 Feb 17 07:54:36   
   
   > There is very little future in being right when your boss is wrong.   
      
   I like that.  It reminds me of Upton Sinclair's line:   
      
   "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends   
   upon his not understanding it!"   
      
       I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935), ISBN   
   0-520-08198-6; repr. University of California Press, 1994, p. 109.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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