"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
― C. Northcote Parkinson
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― C. Northcote Parkinson
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- "In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want."
- "Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married."
- "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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- "There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened."― Bruno Mars
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