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It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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A perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative, He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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Expansion means complexity, and complexity decay.
— C. Northcote Parkinson