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

C. Northcote Parkinson
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  2. Expenditure rises to meet income.

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  4. A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

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