“Nothing propinks like propinquity.”

— George Ball (diplomat)

The "Ball Rule of Power"
Source: Hugh, Sidey, Learning How to Build a Barn, Time, October 17, 1983, 14 September 2018 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,952191,00.html,

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