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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
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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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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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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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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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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
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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.
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The smaller the function, the greater the management.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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