"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
-C. Northcote Parkinson
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"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.“
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"Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married."
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"In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want."
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"A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn."
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"How sweet it is!"
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"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."
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"That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another."
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"I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived."
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