Department Quotes - Page 9

• In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.

  Douglas Mawson

  Men, Leader, He Man

  Douglas Mawson (2010). “The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources.

  Barack Obama

  Marijuana, Justice, Use

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• I think on a national level your Department of Law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out.

  Sarah Palin

  Thinking, Law, White

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.nbcnews.com. July 7, 2009.

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• Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Art, Cardinals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I worked for the recreation and parks department for a year.

  Lee Majors

  Years, Parks, Recreation

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

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• I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set up to assist the fledgling labour movement. It was not a company, nor a statutory board, nor a government department - in fact it did not exist at all as a legal entity. Thus in slightly unorthodox circumstances I became part of that struggle.

  S. R. Nathan

  Struggle, Government, Labour Movement

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• You can set off bells when you walk out of a drugstore or department store with a tagged item.

  Frank Murkowski

  Bells, Stores, Walks

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• When I started, department stores were either very fashion, or very tailored, so the two never mixed. I mixed it, and they said you're too tailored for fashion and too fashion for tailoring. So I had to move the market. So that's what I did.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Fashion, Moving, Two

  "Ozwald Boateng: does my head look big in this?". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 09, 2012.

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• We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Soul, Reason, Instinct

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1992). “Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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• Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his legal innovations was especially pernicious: the demonizing of state attempts to ensure honest elections.

  Edwin Meese

  Justice, Innovation, Thursday

  "Holder's Legacy of Racial Politics" by Meese & Blackwell, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 29, 2014.

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• I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.

  Roone Arledge

  Lying, Past, Thinking

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• Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.

  John Hench

  Affection, Walt

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• The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will 'preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.' The great object of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose; and without it, be the form of government whatever it may, it will be utterly worthless for offence or defense; for the redress of grievances or the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people.

  Joseph Story

  Strong, Rights, Government

  Joseph Story (1851). “Commentaries on the constitution of the United States”, p.357

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• The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people. The Rulers who are guilty of such an encroachment, exceed the commission from which they derive their authority and are Tyrants. The people who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them, and are slaves.

  James Madison

  Rights, Government, Law

  James Madison (1867). “1769-1793”, p.163

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• Barron and Paul...rely on 'specialists' at the State and Defense Departments...Elsewhere in the media, similiar figures are bandied about, with equal credibility.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Media, Defense

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• You might recall, perhaps, that we were probably the only commentators to rely on the most knowledgeable source, State Department intelligence.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Might, States

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• His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf Zeppelin Club or shopped at the Chinese department stores, for their mastery of an exotic foreign ritual. Besides, those who worked hardest for others, like Mrs. Philips and Mrs. Gilmour and Dr. Ransome, often held beliefs that turned out to be correct.

  J. G. Ballard

  Christian, Mother, Father

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• While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205.

  Joseph McCarthy

  War, Party, Men

  "'Communists in Government Service,' McCarthy Says". Joseph McCarthy's Lincoln's birthday address to the Women's Republican Club of Wheeling in West Virginia, www.senate.gov. February 9, 1950.

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• Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.

  John Wayne

  Funny, Hate, Humor

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• The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Pay, Difficulty, Complaints

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.142

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• We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments.

  Alexis Herman

  Technology, Government, Growth

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• I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.

  Alonzo Church

  School, Math, Goes On

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• You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cheating, Balance, Succeed

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• The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing.

  Daniel Okrent

  Monday, Thinking, Television

  "It's curtains for Okrent". Interview With Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.

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• Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

  Auguste Comte

  Three, Metaphysical, Abstract

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