Managing life by way of stimulus and response, A Human Strategy, by Matt Berry aphorism 382

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Managing life by way of stimulus and response can look so much like superstition as to confuse even the manager — if, for example, he sees only a limited portion of the vast number of influences or if he confuses a minor influence with a major.  He has to remind himself constantly of the legitimacy of the effort ... but in pragmatic implication he is something like the man who walks through a graveyard under a full moon, alone and repeating to himself, “I don’t believe in ghosts.  I don’t believe in ghosts.”

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