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• President Bush gave a rousing speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Afterward, in a touching show of support, every foreign dignitary shook hands with the president and smiled warmly as he mispronounced their names.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Humor, Hands

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• A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't.

  Raymond Simard

  Art, Humorous, Today

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• A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Song, Lines, Bigs

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• No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Light, Decision

  Sir Arthur Helps (1852). “Organization in Daily Life: An Essay”, p.11, [s.n.]

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• Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.

  Alexis Carrel

  Prayer, Giving, Mind

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• For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of mankind has so long wandred, because they rely'd upon the strength of humane Reason alone, have begun anew to correct all Hypotheses by sense, as Seamen do their dead Reckonings by Cœlestial Observations; and to this purpose it has been their principal indeavour to enlarge and strengthen the Senses by Medicine, and by such outward Instruments as are proper for their particular works.

  Robert Hooke

  Eye, Science, Medicine

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• When my father ran for the state Assembly, the headline said, 'Kean's Son to Run for Assembly.' When my grandfather first ran for Congress, it was 'Kean's son to run for Congress.'

  Thomas Kean, Jr.

  Running, Father, Son

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• The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

  Ray Davies

  Rock And Roll, Lines, Corporations

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• Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Powerful, Voice, Judging

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• One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.

  George Meany

  Rights, People, Freedom Of Speech

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• In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.

  Rachel Johnson

  Germany, Ham, Salad

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• The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

  C. S. Lewis

  Doe, Worship, New Testament

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• I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.

  Sharron Angle

  Firsts, Asian, Nevada

  "The Rachel Maddow Show" with Rachel Maddow, www.nbcnews.com. October 19, 2010.

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• So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that. What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I’m evidence of that. I’ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.

  Sharron Angle

  Country, Teenager, Grandchildren

  "Angle to Hispanic children: “Some of you look a little more Asian to me”". lasvegassun.com. October 18, 2010.

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• It is possible to make buildings by stringing together patterns, in a rather loose way. A building made like this, is an assembly of patterns. It is not dense. It is not profound. But it is also possible to put patterns together in such a way that many patterns overlap in the same physical space: the building is very dense; it has many meanings captured in a small space; and through this density, it becomes profound.

  Christopher Alexander

  Space, Profound, Together

  Christopher Alexander (1977). “A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction”, p.41, Oxford University Press

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• Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas.

  Arthur Koestler

  Simple, Order, Society

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• A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince

  Edward Gibbon

  Freedom, Balance, Arms

  Edward Gibbon (1787). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.78

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• There is apparently nowhere a workable majority in the representative assemblies for making the specific cuts in expenditure which could bring down the taxes, and in election after election the people vote into power representatives who are as unable as they are unwilling to do anything about it.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Cutting, People, Majority

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• Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Speech, Serious, Injury

  Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 1927.

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• I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Government, Discipline, Political

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• In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.

  Jonathan Swift

  Air, Age, May

  Jonathan Swift (2004). “A Modest Proposal and Other Prose”, p.61, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Character, Passion, Citizens

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, J.R. Pole (2005). “The Federalist”, p.301, Hackett Publishing

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• An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Clouds, Gambling, Envy

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• One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.

  Joseph Addison

  Thinking, Would Be, Conversation

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.2472, Delphi Classics

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• I'm a knitter. My projects are the ultimate in 'some assembly required.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Projects, Ultimate

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.181, Storey Publishing

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