Parkinson Building

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“In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.”
—Cecil Parkinson (b. 1932)

“An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancy for building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)