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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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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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Other Quotes from
Committee
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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

One of the reasons why the Ten Commandments are so short and to the point is the fact they were given direct and did not come out of committees. – H. G. Hutcheson

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Committee

A committee of one gets things done. – Joe Ryan

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Committee

A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead. – Carl Gustav Jung

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Committee

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A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot…. We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, 1860

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Thinking

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful. – Francis Ford Coppola

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Patriotism

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. – Carter G. Woodson

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Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity. – John Weiss

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Irony