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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#committee #committees #dies #flowers #grows

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk. ↗

— Michael Parkinson

#been #forty #knows #man #married

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#early #five #hundred #kansas #miles

The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#fortified #iroquois #side #towns #were

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#compelled #did #failure #fear #fight

I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#assignments #before #bureau #europe #even

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#any #historic #history #important #know

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free. ↗

— Rosa Parks

#free #i #like #other #people

Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back. ↗

— Maxfield Parrish

#allowing #always #back #because #capabilities

No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld. ↗

— Rod Parsley

#believe #built #christian ethic #end #ethic