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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.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- C Northcote Parkinson, (Jul 30 1909-1993), Brtitish historian, philosopher; He was the formulator of Parkinson's Law, the satiric dictum that Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

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