"Purposes are deduced from behaviour, not from rhetoric or stated goals."
— Purpose

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

Sources

Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008, page 14 (ISBN 9781603580557).