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• The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the explosion were smaller, you could potentially cover it up. If it were larger, there would be no one left in the city to submit paperwork to.

  Randall Munroe

  Cities, Labs, Faces

  Randall Munroe (2014). “What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your f**kin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.

  George Carlin

  Running, Retirement, Jobs

  "Life Is Worth Losing". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.

  Dorothy Day

  Phones, House, Acting

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• The PURPOSE of the DATA INTEGRITY BOARD review meeting is NOT for the purpose of reviewing the INTEGRITY of the paperwork because that has already been decided, it is for the PURPOSE of determining the CHARACTER & STANDING of THE MAN/WOMAN who brought the perfect paperwork and was intending to use the perfect paperwork for COMMERCIAL settlement and closure. So they have to find out if the STATUS and CHARACTER of the party who is going to use the paperwork was going to be ALLOWED to use it.

  Jack Smith

  Integrity, Party, Character

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• I went down for a week with the Houston Marshals. I didn't know that they hated paperwork as much as I hated it. They loathe it, man. They want to be in their cars catching the bad guys. They don't want to be filling out paperwork about the bad guys, you know, and the ones they've caught.

  Kelli Giddish

  Men, Car, Guy

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• At most corporations if you make an acquisition and it turns out to be a disaster, all the paperwork and presentations that caused the dumb acquisition to be made are quickly forgotten. You've got denial, you've got everything in the world. You've got Pavlovian association tendency. Nobody even wants to even be associated with the damned thing or even mention it. At Johnson & Johnson, they make everybody revisit their old acquisitions and wade through the presentations. That is a very smart thing to do. And by the way, I do the same thing routinely.

  Charlie Munger

  Smart, Dumb, Acquisition

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• Marriage is when two people love each other so much that they promise that if they ever, ever stop they'll fill out tons of paperwork.

  Eugene Mirman

  Love, Two, People

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• I refuse to confirm or deny anything about any deal to purchase an American NHL franchise and move it to Canada until I've completed all of the paperwork and the deal is closed.

  Jim Balsillie

  Moving, Nhl, Canada

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• Then, as she turned to walk away, Fred dropped the guillotine."So we're making Ev CEO," he said, his fork clenched in his hand. "You're going to get a passive chairman role and a silent board seat. We have some paperwork for you and a recommendation for a lawyer."Jack felt like he had just been hit in the face with a baseball bat. "Say that again," he stuttered to Fred, thinking he had heard incorrectly.Fred repeated himself almost verbatim: We're making Ev CEO. You're getting a passive chairman role. You will have a silent board seat. Here's the paperwork. Call a lawyer.

  Nick Bilton

  Baseball, Thinking, Hands

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• Non-crazy gun advocates - the ones who aren't stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion - don't like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it'll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market.

  Gail Collins

  Crazy, Gun, Thinking

  "Guns, Guns, Guns". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 3, 2013.

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• I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

  Lee Child

  Writing, Email, Three

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• My question is about the head of the Office of Government Ethics. Is he acting ethically when he sent out nine tweets praising Donald Trump saying that his plan was brilliant. How did he come to that conclusion? And how does come to his current conclusions having never done an investigation and never looked at the paperwork in the point where he can actually come to a reasonable conclusion?I think that's unethical.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Thinking, Government, Office

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There are so many issues that impact women. When we talk about prison reform, for example, women were [once] sterilized in women's prisons. When they were giving birth, they were asked to sign paperwork but they weren't even completely conscious of what they were signing. That sounds like something that would never happen in America, but it was happening, not just in America, but in [California], one of the most progressive states in the United States.

  Patricia Arquette

  Impact, California, America

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Rigorous teaching schedules combined with mounds of paperwork can lead to burnout.

  Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

  Teaching, Schedules, Burnout

  "Maybe Teaching Special Ed Doesn't Have To Be So Hard". "All Things Considered" with Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, kuer.org. January 15, 2017.

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• Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants anyway.

  John Stossel

  Government, Arbitrary, Want

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• The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the more the wheels of capitalism work better because there's trust in the marketplace. Business ethics is not a joke. And, in fact, I think most businesses that I've dealt with encourage exactly that type of behavior.

  Rick Santorum

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• The Small Business 'common app' would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously. It would ensure that small businesses across the country can concentrate on growing and creating jobs - not wasting time, filling out mountains of repetitive paperwork.

  Kay Hagan

  Country, Jobs, College

  "All-in-one stop for small business". www.politico.com. May 16, 2012.

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• We in Congress need to do everything possible to encourage and cultivate small businesses, so that they can expand and create jobs. Far too often, however, U.S. small businesses are impeded by government paperwork and bureaucratic red tape.

  Kay Hagan

  Jobs, Government, Needs

  "All-in-one stop for small business". www.politico.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.

  Karen Mills

  Want, Small Business, Great Success

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• You know what I find amazing is within Christianity it is not uncommon to find [married] people who don't have sexual intimacy, don't have emotional intimacy, don't have spiritual intimacy, don't pray together, don't do their life together, don't put their schedules together, don't put their budgets together, but they don't get divorced. So they can pat themselves on the back and say, 'We're good Christians.' They're divorced in everything but the paperwork.

  Mark Driscoll

  Christian, Spiritual, Emotional

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• I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Hate, Sitting, Way

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• The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Writing, Emotional, Grandparent

  "Best Selling Novelist Pens Tale of Grandparents Star-Crossed Romance". Interview with Julie A. Carlson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by the eighties a termination required paperwork and signatures and a post-action review.

  Tom Clancy

  Kgb, People, Signatures

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• Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.

  John Sununu

  Growth, Enough Time, Cost

  First Speech by Anne Ruston as representative of South Australia, www.anneruston.com.au. October 10, 2012.

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• When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!

  David Twohy

  Taken, Care, Stuff

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