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I see no need for a Royal Commission [on trade unions] which will take minutes and waste years.


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Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.
WILLIAM WHITELAW I think Whirlpool will clear the (Federal Trade Commission).
DAVID MACGREGOR A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.
MICHAEL FOOT So trade unions in Beijing should take the benchmark rate as weapons.
DONG LI Lula is going to build a government based on alliances, a government in which businessmen, bankers, ...
GUIDO MANTEGA This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involv...
JEAN-PIERRE RAFFARIN As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were...
FRITZ SAUCKEL Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.
JEREMY CORBYN I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.
BARBARA CASTLE I see a dermatologist in L.A. called Dr. Harold Lancer, who is incredible. I've known him for ye...
VICTORIA BECKHAM It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were afte...
BARBARA CASTLE This deal will remove the legal uncertainty which has hung over this trade for several years and ben...
MARIANN FISCHER BOEL While there will be no major increases, we need to do basic things to ensure human dignity outside o...
DR OMAR DAVIES As a writer, Harold has been unswerving for 50 years,
TOM STOPPARD I have seen the face of this country change in 25 years or 30 years. I have seen a equalization begi...
SIDNEY BUCHMAN Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, bu...
JOHN RUSKIN If the EPA cannot or will not act to halt the toxic e-waste trade to developing nations, then Congre...
GENE GREEN Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to...
WOODROW T. WILSON We also see that there are no U.S. sanctions imposed against the local company, or even if the compa...
DONALD LEO The Pastor said, "Today I've prepared a $10 sermon on fire and brimstone that will take me about an ...
UNKNOWN The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and c...
ARTHUR SCARGILL There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for i...
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
LOUISE BERLIAWSKY NEVELSON I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
LOUISE NEVELSON I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same...
JOHN SWEENEY Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live ...
JOHN RUSKIN Charging consumers for bogus collect calls is stealing. The Federal Trade Commission will not tolera...
LYDIA PARNES My expectation is that we will see countries lapsing back to some sort of controls on trade, on capi...
DESMOND LACHMAN The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons...
LEON JOUHAUX Three-quarters of directors waste four hours on a shot that requires five minutes of actual directin...
JEAN-LUC GODARD The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.
FRITZ SAUCKEL Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
DAVID GROSS Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we was...
MOTHER TERESA You need to see time correctly for you not to waste your life
SUNDAY ADELAJA I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the stru...
LEON JOUHAUX There is no need for biting in the game. I brought it to the attention of the referee and if the aut...
BRAD DAVIS I have some significant experience in general plan revisions. I served six years on the Stanislaus C...
RUSS THOMAS I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
LORD CHESTERFIELD I remember the day after the general election when Harold Wilson had lost, I remember quite clearly ...
PHILIP HAMMOND There is no other Royal path which leads to geometry.
EUCLID If Siegel Middle has reached a point that it can no longer take students without going into portable...
DONALD JERNIGAN In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint y...
FRANCISCO GOYA To Woodrow Wilson, the apparent failure, belongs the undying honor, which will grow with the growin...
RT. HON. JAN CHRISTIAAN SMUTS At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Rev...
ALISON WEIR The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a b...
JULIA CHILD For the Planning & Zoning Commission, I think that the adoption of the 2005 Conservation and Develop...
ALLAN CRIBBINS I have had a nice 10 years. I will see what happens from here. I may take a year off. I have had inf...
AMANDA GLAZEBROOK Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade. Instead, learn the trade.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn the trade.
JAMES CHARLTON AND H. JACKSON BROWN Cody Powell and Eddie, all the linebackers played exceptionally, and I can't say enough about the se...
STEVE THOMPSON Electronic filing has been a goal of the State Ethics Commission for seven years. We are very please...
HERB HAYDEN In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and ...
LOIS CAPPS Some of the changes can happen quickly, some will need legislation, and some will take years.
MO MOWLAM Committee--a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
MILTON BERLE Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
MILTON BERLE We need no elaborate statistical proof that trade depends on prosperity in the industrial countries.
ARTHUR LEWIS The decision by the unions is unfortunate, but it clearly underlines the need for a level playing fi...
MAUREEN MOORE You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.
COLIN WRIGHT A lot of people us the internet searching for fifteen minutes of fame I've been on it so long and so...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICHCTOR PASKAVICH I don't like to run. You will not see me running on a treadmill ever. Ever! I like boxing, thoug...
HAILEY BALDWIN The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10...
DAVID BOWIE On both these transatlantic alliances there is no final Commission position yet... Third parties wil...
MICHAEL TSCHERNY All players need to focus on what was promised four years ago: reform of world trade rules that boos...
CELINE CHARVERIAT Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
SAMUEL GOMPERS I take losses in a positive way. I learn from losses. I dwell on them for about 10 minutes, and then...
JOE DUBUQUE I've seen some terrible plays, but I generally enjoy myself. One play I walked out of, I have a ...
AUGUST WILSON Without a free trade agreement, no one, not national or foreign firms, will invest. We have many thi...
OSCAR ARIAS More people will take it and many people think it's the panacea, which it's not, ... Who's going to ...
FRANK SACKS I wasted time, and now doth Time waste me: For now hath Time made me his numb'ring clock; My thought...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For years, I have been working on crossing the Grand Canyon. Actually, there is nobody who says '...
PHILIPPE PETIT He's a guy in the Elite League who's been able to produce numbers. We'll see what training camp is l...
LARRY PLEAU I don't know anything at all and I'm somebody else It could take years to find you, it could take ye...
TRAPT Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair.
PIERCE BROWN Free trade is no panacea -- for Colombia to fully benefit from this deal it will need to accompany t...
JEFFREY SCHOTT I want to play four years so they won't waste snaps with me. I think it will be the best fit for me.
BILL SHIRK We've done very well and I have no regrets. But I think we have a unique opportunity to have a sport...
ARN TELLEM It will take five to 10 years for China to become a major force. We're still talking relatively smal...
JEFFREY MAXICK I will take my years in Washington and New York state and compare it with Clinton any day, on substa...
EDWARD COX An insurance study showed there will be no changes, ... As far as response time, the longest it woul...
WILLIAM MORGAN Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the...
JACQUES DELORS I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five m...
URS FISCHER When you're dealing with a little tiny detail, you put it in that context. Is this going to affect s...
STEVE VERNON Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We...
EUGENE H. PETERSON [E-Trade, the virtual stock brokerage, makes no bones about the fact that it is targeting full-servi...
CHRISTOS COTSAKOS You will need an evidence to show the world that you didn’t waste your time here on earth.
SUNDAY ADELAJA We need a Katrina reconstruction commission headed by a no-nonsense, nonpolitical, businessman manag...
DAVID VITTER What you taken for granted, could mean a lot to another.
ZENG HAN JUN We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation...
JAMES LARKIN There's a good chance we'll see them again. We just need to take care of ourselves and hope for a ch...
DON OLSEN He that will procastinate for months & years,must first begin by procastinating in minutes & hours.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Wilson is going to be a great player here. He puts on that No. 93 jersey and he looks like Will Smit...
DONTE WHITNER There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which gr...
J. G. HOLLAND Birds play a role in the primary infection of the country, but then after that there's no need for w...
JOSEPH DOMENECH There's pressure to win and keep winning. If we play like we know we can, we'll be fine. The process...
ANDREW LINDSEY Right now I see that we need to work on our communication. I see it as a major weakness, and that wi...
ERIKA SMITH I will set up an independent commission to evaluate the effort of each of the players, and their spo...
FERNANDO MARTIN The Commission is considering making an offer on the agriculture negotiations but no decision has be...
PETER POWER The commission engaged in a bit of a bait and switch. It directed the exchange to stand down on its ...
SETH RODNER If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it will take all day. Act like you've got all day, ...
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HAROLD MACMILLAN To be alive at all involves some risk.
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HAROLD BLOOM I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a...
HAROLD BLOOM Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of...
HAROLD BLOOM I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
HAROLD BLOOM I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
HAROLD BLOOM I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
HAROLD BLOOM What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or ...
HAROLD BLOOM The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been in...
HAROLD BLOOM What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that yo...
HAROLD BLOOM In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
HAROLD BLOOM Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, ev...
HAROLD BLOOM What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems t...
HAROLD BLOOM What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the...
HAROLD BLOOM Shakespeare is universal.
HAROLD BLOOM We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profound...
HAROLD BLOOM Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage eve...
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