A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.


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To get something done a committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
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He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.
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When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.
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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty
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Where are the heirs? They should be here. They have been completely absent.
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Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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The future starts today, not tomorrow.
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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
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A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
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Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
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When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.
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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
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Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.
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Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
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You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomi...
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One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
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To build castles in Spain.
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A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long. [A cool mouth, and warm feet, live long.]
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Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.
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I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
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The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Never was a miser a brave soul.
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Science is organised knowledge.
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Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
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For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.
GEORGE HERBERT
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
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Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have becom...
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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
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Time: that which man is always trying to kill, ends in killing him.
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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I am fully convinced that he will elevate the program to what you expect.
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I am convinced that our new coach understands fully and is determined to meet Indiana University's h...
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Coach Davis assumed one of most difficult challenges any coach can accept -- following a legendary p...
ADAM HERBERT
He (Davis) thought it was an appropriate time for the AD (athletic director) and me to consider a co...
ADAM HERBERT
Mike followed a legendary predecessor and responded to it with character, graciousness and the deter...
ADAM HERBERT
I love Indiana University. I think it is an exciting institution and it has been a privilege to serv...
ADAM HERBERT
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
HERBERT TRUE
A library is thought in cold storage.
HERBERT SAMUEL
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ge...
HERBERT SPENCER
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment t...
HERBERT SPENCER
Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to...
HERBERT MARCUSE
In doing we learn.
GEORGE HERBERT
The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action
HERBERT SPENCER
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep th...
GEORGE HERBERT
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-makin...
FRANK HERBERT
Fear is the mind-killer.
FRANK HERBERT
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the r...
FRANK HERBERT
The revolution is for the sake of life, not death.
HERBERT MARCUSE
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
GEORGE HERBERT
There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.
FRANK HERBERT
What does a mirror look at?
FRANK HERBERT
Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religi...
FRANK HERBERT
Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on...
FRANK HERBERT
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Some...
FRANK HERBERT
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'...
FRANK HERBERT
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit...
FRANK HERBERT
The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wi...
FRANK HERBERT
Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you ...
FRANK HERBERT
Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.
FRANK HERBERT
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's...
FRANK HERBERT
Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things..." she held up four big-knuckle...
FRANK HERBERT