Quote: Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. (Attrib Abraham Lincoln)

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 4:23 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

> To Cut Down a Tree in Five Minutes Spend Three Minutes Sharpening Your Axe

because, as Parkinson has noted,
"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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