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C. Northcote Parkinson

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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

C. Northcote Parkinson

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

C. Northcote Parkinson

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Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

C. Northcote Parkinson

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

C. Northcote Parkinson

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Expenditure rises to meet income.

C. Northcote Parkinson

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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.

C. Northcote Parkinson

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