"Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available."

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C. Northcote Parkinson

#Work Quotes #Law Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.”
“As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.”
“I have always liked shows that have laughter in them.”
“I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.”
“A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man.”
“We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.”

Source : William Irwin Thompson (1990). “At the Edge of History”, SteinerBooks
“Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made his field a well-nigh finished theoretical structure.”
“You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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