Edna O'Brien Quotes
It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.
She was very concerned about the bureaucratic indifference to the public that was exhibited by government and corporations alike.
Edna O'Brien, Irish-English Writer, New York Times Book Review, February 14, 1993
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His Virgin Group companies founded a biofuels research and production company.
This proverb describes a philosophy which is very different from traditional American values. Ironically, in Chinese History, both the right wing and left wing governments have espoused the philosophy implicit in this proverb. Both the Nationalist and Communist factions of the Chinese Civil War both demanded these values.
the legal and regulatory system While this is generally true, the same very efficient private organziations sometimes act very efficiently against the interest of the public, or a part of the public in a discriminatory manner. There are other functions which for one reason or another no private organization chooses to take on, and we are left with government doing the best it can. And there are some areas where th cost of private service is just too high, and government assumes it for reasons of affordability. However sometimes there is a major problem created by competitive private organzaitions in such heated competition that the servie is terrible. In early America, Fire Fighting was assumed by private organzations, who would often fight with one another over who would handle the fire while entire neighborhoods burned down. The result was public fire service which is now the norm despite the fact that there might be better ervice in with a private company. America has attemted to balance this problem and tends to have done so better than most countries athough the issue is in contant debate in American politics.
building brain injury treatment facilities on military bases to care for wounded soldiers. Fisher raised the money and built several major medical facilities on military bases while Congress was in Gridlock over raising and reforming taxes desired by the Democrats and cutting of government spending desired by the Republicans with no compromise as a large proportion of the Republicans had signed a pledge never to vote for increased taxes regardless of the need and the Democrats would not make all the cuts that would affect the poor, ill, and middle class unless there was a balance with raising taxes.
Josephine Edna O'Brien DBE is an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer. Philip Roth described her as "the most gifted woman now writing in English", while a former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, cited her as "one of the great creative writers of her generation".
