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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.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

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

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

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It t...

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Expenditure rises to meet income.

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C. Northcote Parkinson

Naval historian

Born: 1909-07-30

Died: 1993-03-09

Cyril Northcote Parkinson (30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993) was a British naval historian and author of some 60 books, the most famous of which was his best-seller Parkinson's Law, which led him to be also considered as an important scholar in public administration and management.More