Organization Quotes - Page 4

• A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Responsibility, Different, News

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• With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.

  Clarence Darrow

  Honesty, Character, Men

  The Railroad Trainman, November 1909.

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• It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.

  Barry Sanders

  Sports, Regret, Player

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• You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity

  Connie Chung

  Mean, Diversity, News

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• A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

  James Cash Penney

  Economy, Stores, Goods

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• It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record.

  Joe Baca

  Rights, Voting, Honor

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• New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Child Labor, Legislation

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• I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't.

  Sharron Angle

  Party, Thinking, Talking

  "Sharron Angle in No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. September 15, 2010.

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• Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

  Dorothy Thompson

  Years, Needs, Causes

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• Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Wisdom, Airplane, Player

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• Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.

  Georges Sorel

  Country, Peace, Hate

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• Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Commitment

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• Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

  Peter Drucker

  Symptoms, Committees, Meetings

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• Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

  Mark Cuban

  Encouragement, Business, Thinking

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• I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Religious, Political, Use

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• Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.

  William Graham Sumner

  Hygiene, Indulge In, Effort

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.40, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.

  Ted Danson

  Motor Oil, Together, Environmental

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• The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights.

  Rene Cassin

  Agency, Rights, Political

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• The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.

  Charles Hodge

  Church, Earth, Assuming

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.4

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• What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Running, Peace, War

  Bertolt Brecht (1963). “Plays”

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• One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Life, Football, Religious

  "Man: The Dwelling Place of God". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1966.

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• Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.

  Haile Selassie

  World, Today, Discarded

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

  Joan Baez

  Peace, Violence, Has Beens

  Daybreak (1968)

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• It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Animal, Habit, Instinct

  Alfred Russel Wallace (1869). “The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise”, p.267, London, Macmillan

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• The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.

  Mary Douglas

  Ideas, Prejudice, Culture

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