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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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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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Heywood Broun
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Free speech is about as good as cause as the world has ever known. But, like the poor, it is always with us and gets shoved aside in favour of things which seem at some given moment more vital. – Heywood Broun

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Speech (freedom of)
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Committee–a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours. – Milton Berle

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Committee

The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees. – V. S. Pritchett

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

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A committee of one gets things done. – Joe Ryan

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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. – Ramakrishna

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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. – Thomas Carlyle

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Beauty and folly are generally companions. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish

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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. – Nadine Gordimer

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