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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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Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all. – Heywood Broun

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Fellowship
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Heywood Broun
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Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways –and all are right! At least all will do. – Heywood Broun

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Baby, Babies
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The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality. – Heywood Broun

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Pessimism
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Committee
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Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary. – Richard Harkness

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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

Ive searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. – G. K. Chesterton

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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

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Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. – Henry Miller

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I couldnt have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mothers death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. – Mary Schmich

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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle. – Heraclitus

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