The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.
C. Northcote ParkinsonMake the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
C. Northcote ParkinsonIt is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
C. Northcote ParkinsonNo king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law to discover. No Treasury official told Fleming to discover penicillin. Nor was Rutherford instructed to split the atom by a certain date.
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