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

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

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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

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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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