Quotation by

Margaret J. Wheatley

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

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Margaret J. Wheatley is pointing out that many people we meet focus only on their own desires and often behave with negative emotions like anger and dishonesty.

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