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Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

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the condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows. Thornton Wilder
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