Assembly Quotes

• The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiveness, Men, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.159, Penguin

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• Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Freedom, Battle, Speech

  "Die Russische Revolution". Book by Paul Froelich, 1940.

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• Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Christian, Blessing, Names

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

  Douglas Alexander

  Scotland, Church, Edinburgh

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• I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

  Angelina Jolie

  Grateful, People, Honor

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• I have a lot of hope for the Constituent Assembly.

  Evo Morales

  Constituents

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• There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

  Victor Hugo

  Halloween, Greatness, Mountain

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6986, Delphi Classics

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• In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Fear, War, Fire

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.607, Best Books on

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• The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

  Leo Burnett

  Dream, Agency, Needs

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• To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

  Herman Gorter

  Europe, Judging, Might

  "Open Letter to Comrade Lenin" by Herman Gorter, www.marxists.org. 1920.

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• There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

  Ashley Montagu

  School, Caring, Faculty Members

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• And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.

  Hjalmar Branting

  League, Century, States

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• Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.

  John Nelson Darby

  Character, Doe, Different

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• If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.

  Matt Blunt

  Stupid, Increase, Taxes

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• The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other.

  Charles Hodge

  Independent, Organization, Two

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• The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Order, Support, Historical

  The Times, October 04, 1960.

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• There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

  Harri Holkeri

  Eye, Issues, President

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• I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Bells, Minutes, Rings

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• A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Political, Noble, Ears

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• After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't.

  John L. Phillips

  Orbit, Robots, Arms

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• The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn.

  Peter Hain

  Running, Government, Missing

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• We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other.

  Peter Hain

  Party, Fighting, Government

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• It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

  Gil Kane

  Drawing, Looks, Lines

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• Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

  Larry Wall

  Real, Writing, Technology

  Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant (2004). “Programming Perl: 3rd Edition”, p.543, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

  Harri Holkeri

  Issues, President, Better Life

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