Committees Quotes - Page 5

• If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.

  Agnes Repplier

  Loss, Ill Health, Anxiety

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• Worship will never end; whether there be buildings, they will crumble; whether there be committees, they will fall asleep; whether there be budgets, they will add up to nothing. For we build for the present age, we discuss for the present age, and we pay for the present age; but when the age to come is here, the present age will be done away.

  N. T. Wright

  Fall, Age, Add

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners.

  Angela Davis

  Organization, Jail, Political

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress.

  Daniel Dennett

  Team, Intelligent, Ignorant

  "Brainstorms". Book by Daniel Dennett (p. 173), 1978.

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• I don't understand the United Nations. They have selected Iran to sit on the U.N.'s women's rights panel. Iran! Also on the panel - Ben Roethlisberger, Chris Brown, Phil Spector, Robert Blake and committee chairman O.J. Simpson.

  Jay Leno

  Rights, Iran, Brown

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• perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout no, and ask questions, defend the few, attack cruelty and proclaim the rights and dignity of man. ... America is going to look very strange to Americans and they will not be at home here, for the air will slowly become unbreathable to all forms of life except sheep.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Home, Men, Sheep

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• The committee has an obligation to give you a choice. The members have the obligation and the right to make that choice.

  Bill Vaughan

  Giving, Choices, Members

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• What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night wed have what youd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.

  Olympia Snowe

  Running, Monday, Morning

  "After Leaving Senate, Snowe Is Still 'Fighting For Common Ground'". Interview with David Greene, www.npr.org. May 13, 2013.

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• What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Integrity, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.276, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This is my favorite story of the week. The Republican National Committee is in trouble after spending nearly $2,000 at a bondage club in Hollywood. You know what I call a Republican who spends a lot of money in a strip club? A Democrat.

  Jay Leno

  Stories, Clubs, Hollywood

  "Cnn Newsroom" with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. April 2, 2010.

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• The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Fighting, Rich, Poor

  "Draft Of Telegram To All Soviets Of Deputies Concerning The Worker-Peasant Alliance". Collected Works, Volume 28, p. 58, www.marxists.org.

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• It is time for us Arabs and Muslims to formulate a committee of wise persons to bear the responsibility of engaging with this new American century.

  Prince Hassan bin Talal

  Wise, Responsibility, Bears

  Interview with Samina Ibrahim, newslinemagazine.com. May 2003.

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• People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club--any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Marine, College

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• Well, you have to remember that until 1948, when Hubert Humphrey and others forced the Democratic Party to adopt a new policy on civil rights, the Democratic Party was the party of the old solid South. All of the racists, all of the Cottonhead Smith types and so on were Democrats, allies of Franklin Roosevelt - because of their seniority - of all the major committees of the Congress.

  William A. Rusher

  Party, Rights, Allies

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles. The way, in "My Major Prize," the speaker does this drippy performance of sadness and poetry for some unnamed prize committee, only he lets us know that it's all a wry game.

  Randall Mann

  Sadness, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't like having a teaching job - office hours and conferences and committees and bosses and all that - but I tend to enjoy teaching, and I design the course in such a way that there'll be pleasure in that.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Jobs, Teaching, Office

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• The last thing members of the committee want to do is pass legislation.

  John McCain

  Want, Lasts, Legislation

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• Sudan replaced the U.S. on the U.N. Human Rights Commission joining Syria, and Cuba. So now, the commission members have no interest in upholding the stated mission of the panel. It's just like the Senate Ethics Committee.

  Argus Hamilton

  Rights, Cuba, Joining

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• Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Vision, Painting, Herds

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• In every committee of twelve, one will love you and one will betray you.

  Lyle E. Schaller

  Love You, Twelve, Betray

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• As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Technology, Voice, America

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• Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.

  Mort Sahl

  Jail

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• Committees do harm merely by existing.

  Freeman Dyson

  Harm

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• Earlier today former Vermont Governor Howard Dean became the new head of the Democratic National Committee -- no word on who will be the neck.

  Amy Poehler

  Vermont, Today, Necks

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• The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.

  Stella Benson

  Ordinary, Might, Wells

  Stella Benson (2012). “Living Alone”, p.13, tredition

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