Colleagues Quotes - Page 4

• I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land, albeit with the divergent opinions. I shudder that my colleagues do not understand the dynamics of the Federal judiciary.

  Alcee Hastings

  Believe, Law, Land

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• I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.

  Chaka Fattah

  Retirement, Widows And Orphans, People

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• I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

  Frederick Sanger

  Engagement, Pursuit, Has Beens

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• In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

  Jacky Ickx

  Past, Two, Accepted

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• I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Color, Helm, Persons

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• Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, Scholarship, Economist

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.489, Princeton University Press

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• I thought that conclusion that we leaped to right after the election, that has been disproven statistically so many times, I don't know why Republicans would advocate that advocating for comprehensive immigration reform is somehow a political solution for the Republicans losing a percentage of Hispanics. I probably have less appetite for this than either the Senate or colleagues in the House, certainly the Democrats and most likely members of the Republican Conference. They are still wrestling with trying to get their education up to a level where they can actually advocate for policy.

  Steve King

  Wrestling, House, Political

  "Immigration talks gain momentum". www.politico.com.

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• A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. 'Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?' he asks. 'No,' replies the colleague, 'but I've been told that it works even if you don't believe in it.'

  Niels Bohr

  Wall, Believe, Luck

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• Hardworking families can no longer afford to wait for a Congress that gridlocks on ideology. I look forward to working with my colleagues from both parties to get things done.

  Kyrsten Sinema

  Party, Waiting, Looks

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• As my colleague, the physical chemist Peter Atkins, puts it, we must be equally agnostic about the theory that there is a teapot in orbrit around the planet Pluto. We can't disprove it. But that doesn't mean the theory that there is a teapot is on level terms with the theory that there isn't.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Pluto, Levels

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• If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Science, Men, Fur

  Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.6, Paul & Company Pub Consortium

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• Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

  Ron Suskind

  Self Confidence, Degrees, Bonus

  Ron Suskind (2012). “Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President”, p.84, Harper Collins

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• And we stood like that. The joining of hands is highly underrated in the acts of intimacy. You kiss acquaintances or colleagues, casually to say hello or good-bye. You might even kiss a close friend chastely on the lips. You might quickly hug anyone you knew. You might even meet someone at a party, take him home and sleep with him, never to see him or hear from him again. But to join hands and stand holding each other that way, with the electricity of possibilities flowing between you? The tenderness of it, the promise of it, is only something you share with a few people in your life.

  Lisa Unger

  Party, Home, Sleep

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• I and some colleagues came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be wrong and unrealistic for African leaders to continue preaching peace and non-violence at a time when the government met our peaceful demands with force. It was only when all else had failed, when all channels of peaceful protest had been barred to us, that the decision was made to embark on violent forms of political struggle.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Struggle, Government

  Nelson Mandela (1990). “One nation, one country”

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• Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Important

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• It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

  Uta Hagen

  Ideas, Language, Interpretation

  Uta Hagen (1991). “Challenge For The Actor”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• The lifestyle of many of our colleagues has been very pompous. They conduct weddings and birthdays in such an ostentatious manner that it pains me a lot. It appears that they are making fun of our commitment to the poor.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Fun, Pain, Commitment

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• Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing that your personal ambitions and the ambitions of the team are one and the same. That's the incentive.

  Greg Brown

  Teamwork, Ambition, Incentives

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• I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleagues, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed.

  William Rehnquist

  Thinking, Ferguson, Realizing

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• What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.

  Susan Collins

  Style, Males, Deference

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• Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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• The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part of the founding myth which states need - but which they should move on from after a time. Major John MacBride, in a cameo performance in which he left Jacobs Mill, as he had entered it, immaculately dressed down to the white spats, told his colleagues Next time lads, don't shut yourself up behind four walls. It was good advice.

  Maurice Hayes

  Wall, Moving, White

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• My Republican colleagues say, Let's do the cuts first. The Democrats say, Let's do spending first. I'd like to do both simultaneously.

  Scott Rigell

  Cutting, Firsts, Republican

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• I like to think that when Medawar and his colleagues showed that immunological tolerance could be produced experimentally the new immunology was born. This is a science which to me has far greater potentialities both for practical use in medicine and for the better understanding of living process than the classical immunochemistry which it is incorporating and superseding.

  Frank Macfarlane Burnet

  Thinking, Medicine, Understanding

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• Indignant reply to the blatent sex discrimination expressed in a colleague's opposition when Hilbert proposed appointing Emmy Noether as the first woman professor at their university.

  David Hilbert

  Sex, Firsts, Discrimination

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