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In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything permanently to us that will last for eternity. Only we ourselves can affect our eternal progression. Marvin Jeremy Ashton		Friday Mar 06, 2026
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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion (and) the thing to be done swells in importance And complexity in a direct ratio with the time to be spent. Cyril Northcote Parkinson

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	Cyril Northcote Parkinson
	Cyril Northcote Parkinson (born July 30, 1909 in Barnard Castle, County Durham - died March 9, 1993 in Canterbury, Kent) was a naval historian and author of some sixty books, the most famous of which was his best seller Parkinson's Law , which led him to be also considered as an important scholar within the field of public administration. Read More

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion (and) the thing to be done swells in importance And complexity in a direct ratio with the time to be spent.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

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

Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.

Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

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