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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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 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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