Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
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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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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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