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One Of The Best Ways Of Avoiding Necessary And Even Urgent Tasks Is To Seem To Be Busily Employed On Things That Are Already Done.
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One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem
to be busily employed on things that are already done.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
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