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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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Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other. – Heywood Broun

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Hell
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Heywood Broun
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In a certain sense every creative person is a reformer, but this does not mean that he must be in his work a propagandist for good roads, shorter hours, and a low tariff. All these are excellent things, but they need not be the concern of the artist. – Heywood Broun

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Artist, The
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Heywood Broun
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Committee
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Ive searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. – G. K. Chesterton

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Committee

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you dont want to do anything. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Committee

The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after. – Terrence Deal

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Committee

Committee–a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours. – Milton Berle

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Committee

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I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all. – Edward VII

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Royalty, Kings, Queens

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. – John Dryden

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Age

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. – E. M. Forster

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Career, Vocation

The shadows: some hide, others reveal. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Perspective