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A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. - Heywoo

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. – Heywood Broun

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We must bring ourselves to realize that it is necessary to support free speech for the things we hate in order to ensure it for the things in which we believe with all our heart. – Heywood Broun

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Speech (freedom of)
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Heywood Broun
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I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. – Heywood Broun

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Ice Cream
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Heywood Broun
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Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room. – Heywood Broun

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Fanaticism
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Other Quotes from
Committee
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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it. – Charles Franklin Kettering

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Committee

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better. – Peter Drucker

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Committee

Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting. – William Goldman

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Committee

The ideal committee is one with me as the chairman, and two other members in bed with the flu. – Lord Milverton

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Committee

Random Quotes

Technology is us. There is no separation. Its a pure expression of human creative will. It doesnt exist anywhere else in the universe. Im rather sure of that. – David Cronenberg

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Technology

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it. – Curtis Carlson

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Money

The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this I, me, mine type of thing. – Abel Ferrara

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Religion

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but Im not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing. – Jonathan Coe

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alone