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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

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#believe #blind #enough #light #shadows

Anybody who knows me knows that I'm no attack dog. ↗

— Deval Patrick

#attack #dog #i #knows #me

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system. ↗

— Anita Diament

#comfortable #did #doing #fellowship #gave

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#before #constitute #day #divine #entire

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution. ↗

— Ron Paul

#besides #conservative #constitution #did #election

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it. ↗

— Katy Perry

#appreciate #boring #cool #different #different sides

It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had. ↗

— Katy Perry

#big #big deal #deal #doing #draining

The beard is here because I got tired of shaving and Grissom, subsequently, got tired of shaving. Grissom, like any other 50-year-old man, is going through a series of mid-life changes. Who knows, he may start drinking. ↗

— William Petersen

#beard #because #changes #drinking #going