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[[File:Erebus.gif|450px|frameless|center|Air New Zealand Flight TE901]] | [[File:Erebus.gif|450px|frameless|center|Air New Zealand Flight TE901]] | ||
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An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable laws. — {{author|Ambrose Bierce}}, {{br|The Devil’s Dictionary}} | An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable laws. — {{author|Ambrose Bierce}}, {{br|The Devil’s Dictionary}}}} | ||
This is one of those “books that will change your life”. Well — that ''should'' change lives — that it was written in 1984 — {{author|Charles Perrow}} passed away in 2019 — and it isn’t on the bookshelf of every [[thought leader]] in the land suggests that, maybe it hasn’t: that the irrationalities that motivate so much of what we do are more pervasive than plainly written common sense. | This is one of those “books that will change your life”. Well — that ''should'' change lives — that it was written in 1984 — {{author|Charles Perrow}} passed away in 2019 — and it isn’t on the bookshelf of every [[thought leader]] in the land suggests that, maybe it hasn’t: that the irrationalities that motivate so much of what we do are more pervasive than plainly written common sense. |