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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.


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CHARLES KETTERING If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
CHARLES F. KETTERING If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.
ROSS PEROT If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.
ROSS PEROT How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER If you file a complaint today, the rules we have now make it difficult to even get a hearing. The po...
COUNCILMAN VAN PEARLBERG if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't ev...
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STEVEN MAGEE If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.
RALPH BUNCHE If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person
RALPH BUNCHE To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
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HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE We're working on Charles and hoping to get something done. Things are picking up.
CARL POSTON If you're a thug, you want to be on the committee that tries to condemn thugs.
KENNETH ROTH People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H. COMINS If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee
GRAHAM SUMMER If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. Al...
FREDERICK SMITH If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine- but to hang a...
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DAVID LYNCH Get the money honestly if you can; if not, any idea will do.
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JAMES BROWN I don't have any idea what we're going to do until the Judiciary Committee reports.
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JAMES ALLEN Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
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MEDGAR EVERS You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
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BARRY PIATT That's why Max is committed to staying vigilant and working together to kill this bad idea.
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UNKNOWN Sometimes shit's gotta be done and I just fuckin' do it!
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RICHIE NORTON Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part yo...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it ...
KATHARINE WHITEHORN My view on working with any government in the world is that there are things that you will agree upo...
TIM COOK We have a policy, ... If you want to change the policy, go to the committee, go to the appropriate a...
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GEORGE CARLIN Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
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MARK SOUDER If you get an idea, you might as well stick with it until somebody calls you on it.
MICHAEL IAN BLACK You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they wa...
ZIG ZIGLAR The board believes this is a major problem and this ordinance is an initial attempt to try to addres...
DENNIS WRIGHT My doctor at Sloan Kettering said if he could help me this way, he would. He told me to go to German...
LISA MUHS You can have anything in the world you want if you’ll just help enough other people get what they ...
ZIG ZIGLAR If you don't get the audit committee piece right, you have kind of missed.
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AVINA CELESTE I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not ...
HARRY TRUMAN OK, son. Just remember to have fun out there today, and if you lose, I'LL KILL YOU!
DAN CASTELLANETA If it isn't contributing to getting you where you want to be a year from today, then don't put it on...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN This world is a joke, and I'm in it
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MARK ZALIN If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when yo...
DAN MILLMAN What I want from you is simple. I want today only.

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liber...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We assemble parliaments and councils, to have the benefit of their collected wisdom; but we necessar...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may per...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presiden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; becau...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instructio...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I we...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowl...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs throug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is ri...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A plural Legislature is as necessary to good Government as a single Executive. It is not enough that...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Dr. FRANKLIN mentioned the case of the Prince of Orange William V, during the late war. An arrangeme...
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