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A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will spring.

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busie…

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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

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Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.

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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. He becomes…

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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

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Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

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No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law t…

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