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The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

Lawrence Klein

Team, Order, United States

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The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing.

Daniel Okrent

Monday, Thinking, Television

"It's curtains for Okrent". Interview With Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.

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So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.

Jane Harman

Successful, Thinking, Play

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If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

William Booth

Success, Sea, Red

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it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.

Jilly Cooper

Ideas, Years, Bored

Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.402, Random House

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When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

Corrie Ten Boom

Prayer, Groups, Want

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A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule: the majority is too big to handle itself; it organizes itself into committees ... which in their turn resolve themselves into a committee of one.

Mary Parker Follett

Majority Rule, Democracy, Minorities

Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.143, Penn State Press

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Currently, without scientific evidence demonstrating safety or effectiveness, we continue to urge Canadians against the use of these e-cigarettes. We have heard that e-cigarettes may be a gateway for teens to begin smoking, while also having the potential to serve as a smoking cessation tool. Today, I am asking the Standing Committee on Health to undertake a thorough study on e-cigarettes and provide a report.

Rona Ambrose

Effectiveness, Safety, Smoking

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The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.

G. Edward Griffin

Taken, Dark, Government

G. Edward Griffin (1997). “World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17”, p.178, Dubois Publishing

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I come to this debate, Mr. Speaker, as one at the end of 10 years in office on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction was one of my top priorities. I applaud the President on focusing on this issue and on taking the lead to disarm Saddam Hussein... Others have talked about this threat that is posed by Saddam Hussein. Yes, he has chemical weapons, he has biological weapons, he is trying to get nuclear weapons.

Nancy Pelosi

Mass Destruction, Years, Iraq

"Pelosi: Unilateral Use of Force Will Be Harmful to the War on Terrorism". Nancy Pelosi's address to the US House of Representatives, pelosi.house.gov. October 10, 2002.

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A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.

Allan Sherman

Perfectly Good, Government, Color

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To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America.

Peter Munk

Relationship, Creating, America

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Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

William E. Gladstone

Work, Political, Letters

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All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality and authorship is lost. That's why you're seeing superstars like Brad Pitt in THE FIGHT CLUB and Tom Cruise in MAGNOLIA. They're desperately searching for people writing and directing off-formula movies.

Paul Schrader

Teacher, Book, Writing

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I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.

Richard Rodney Bennett

Teaching, Play, Want

"A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

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Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.

Jeff Flake

Filled Out, Lobbyists, Staff

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Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

Roger Stone

Built, Statues

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The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.

Ted Cruz

Agency, Nasa, Budgets

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QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

Ambrose Bierce

White, Numbers, House

Ambrose Bierce (2007). “Essential Bierce: A Selection of the Writings of Ambrose Bierce”, Heyday Books

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It would be worth the while if in each town there were a committee appointed to see that the beauty of the town received no detriment. If we have the largest boulder in the county, then it should not belong to an individual, nor be made into door-steps.

Henry David Thoreau

Doors, Boulders, Would Be

Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.226, Courier Corporation

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Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.

Ari Fleischer

Mean, Government, House

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Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you’re just a middleman. “
“Don’t try to be the ‘next’. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new. “
“Everyone is not your customer. “
“Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

Seth Godin

Fire, People, Trying

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[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Men, Growth, Society

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Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to declare that they are to start from 0.5.

Stan Kelly-Bootle

People, Groups, Tasks

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Cyril Connolly

Friendship, Girl, Cousin

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