It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

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Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is...

Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is...

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they...

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they...

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

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

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

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.

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

Expenditures rise to meet income.

Expenditures rise to meet income.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the...

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the...

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some...

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some...

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard...

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard...

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item...

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item...

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

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

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess...

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess...

Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years...

Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years...

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and...

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and...