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“While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205.”

Men Has Beens War States Hands Names Party He Man Cold Members Lists Rings Department Communist Cold War Spy Communist Party

Author:Joseph McCarthy

“Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.”

Men Firsts Two Humor Funny Hate Doors He Man Stores Department Shops Inches Department Stores

Author:John Wayne

“The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.”

Pay Difficulty Department Complaints Obtaining

Book:Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

“We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments.”

Government Growth Technology Areas Labor Department Decline Specialty Government Service

Author:Alexis Herman

“I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.”

Way Has Beens Able School Goes On Paid Math My Way Department Graduates Fellowship Graduate School Princeton Undergraduate

Author:Alonzo Church

“You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.”

Whole Life Is Balance Succeed Department Cheating Another Life Indivisible

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“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.”

Thinking Said Policy Television Good Things Department Reports Permission Reporters Committees Monday Credibility

Author:Daniel Okrent

“Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.”

Three Stage Abstract Department Metaphysical Theological

Author:Auguste Comte

“We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.”

Ifs Needs Streets Safe Police Locals Secure Department Neighborhood Homeland Personnel Sheriffs

Author:Dick Durbin

“Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.”

Conditions Fronts Activity Labor Improvement Department Factories Staff Workplace Gave Up

Author:Albert Speer

“Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.”

People School Politics Common Our Lives Program Police Court Prison Common Sense Educated Ran Welfare Experts Department Civilized Elites Replaced Police Department Welfare Programs

Author:Walter E. Williams

“Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.”

Wells Long Wanted Taken Security Long Time Congress Department Fund Homeland Aggravation Homeland Security Department Of Homeland Security

Author:Warren Rudman

“You know how sometimes department stores have these things where, if you win, you get 10 minutes to go in and take anything you want from the store? That's basically what I'm doing. I'm running in and just trying to grab as many characters as possible before they pull the plug on me.”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Sometimes Character Running Winning Know How Minutes Stores Department Plugs Department Stores

Author:Ryan Gosling

“By increasing the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel, and providing the Department of Energy with a budget to create more energy efficiency options, agriculture can be the backbone of our energy supply as well.”

Wells Use Energy Budgets Fuel Department Providing Agriculture Efficiency Backbone Diesel Bios Energy Efficiency Ethanol Fuel Efficiency

Author:John Salazar

“Team members have to be focused on the collective good of the team. Too often, they focus their attention on their department, their budget, their career aspirations, their egos.”

Attention Careers Focus Team Members Ego Focused Budgets Aspiration Department Collectives Team Member Collective Good

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily.”

Needs Mind Action Form Purpose Habit Exercise Court Supreme Department Urges Dedication Self Discipline Supreme Court Recognizing Will Power Of My Mind Instructors

Author:Bruce Lee

“You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.”

Knows I Can Loses Picks Stores Apples Department Shops Groceries Grocery Stores Department Stores

Author:Gail Simmons

“An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.”

“Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department in Washington, D.C. - I find people with a similar story. When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.”

People Writing States Stories Together Community Chance Office Department Village Jordan Sri Lanka Community Centers Amman

Author:Eboo Patel

“I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.”

Persons Ideas Numbers Goes On Training Department Archeology

Author:Jennifer Egan

“Sports is the toy department of life.”

Sports Department Toys

Author:George Will

“Honor your seeing...digest your seeing...otherw ise it becomes just another thing you file away in the mind's department of philosophy...yo u're here for much more than knowledge...you are here for Self-discovery.”

Mind Self Philosophy Seeing Honor Discovery Self Discovery Department Files

Author:Mooji

“It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.”

Government Jobs Struggle Students Cost Profit Department Squeezing

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc.”

Character Stories Film Instinct Department Etc

Author:Katrina Kaif

“No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.”

People Giving Persons Running Grew Mountain Grew Up Blue Scary Department Justified Ridges

Author:Walton Goggins

“When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.”

Home Left Parent Hours Minutes Needed Directors Mental Health University Department Florida Parents Home

Author:Darrell Hammond

“In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.”

May Philosophy Character Facts Objects Consequence Concerned Logic Mark Definitions Characteristics Department Logical Behaviour Formal Propositions Factual Enquiry

Author:A.J. Ayer

“Charles Kernaghan is a legitimate American hero... Through his determination he has forced the leadership in our country and many other countries around the world to pay attention. Kernaghan has done more to expose child labor than has the whole Department of Labor that has a budget of hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars, because he has the guts and determination to do it.”

“I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.”

People Art Made Three Clothes Made It Department Weekend

Author:John Sayles

“I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.”

Way Leadership Findings Argument Very Good Department Rip Good Way Finding Out The Truth

Book:The Grand Alliance

Source: The Grand Alliance

“Multiple studies, including from the Justice Department, have shown that the guns used in homicides, including the killing of police officers, overwhelmingly tend to be small-caliber handguns. Moreover, gun ownership has increased over the past 20 years — the same period in which both the violent crime rate and the killing of police officers have been in decline.”

“It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.”

Failing Succeed Department Attempting Exquisite Rehabilitation

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)

“During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.”

Judging Periods Department

Author:Anita Hill

“I could not move them. They would not even agree to a modification, of the ruling (banning the Rand vaccine), which would at least allow the 100 (cancer) patients at Richmond Heights (Ohio) to complete their injections. The Justice Department was prepared to go along, but the FDA commissioner, Dr. James Goddard, was adamant, even belligerent. It's wrong of the government to snatch away this hope when there is no evidence against its use offered in court. It's damnably wrong.”

“What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates in overweight, ever since the publication in 1864 of William Banting's famous "Letter on Corpulence"? Could it be related, in part, to the vast financial endowments poured into the various departments of nutritional education by the manufacturers of our refined carbohydrate foodstuff?”

Source: Dr. Atkins' diet revolution; the high calorie way to stay thin forever

“The role and weight to be accorded medical testimony in Administrative hearings before the Post Office Department was established....These decisions enunciate a rule that informed medical consensus and the 'universality of scientific belief' may be established through the testimony of a (one, single - Ed.) medical doctor.”

May Age Belief Dark Decision Roles Office Doctors Weight Hearing Medical Posts Department Testimony Consensus Dark Ages Administrative Universality Post Office Medical Doctor

Author:J. Edward Day

“The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health.”

Should Age Dark White Medical Bread Department Hospitals Vegetables Sugar Soup Frozen Dark Ages Refined Menace Public Health Cubes White Bread

Author:David Reuben

“When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by other departments of science. I conceive that this is no accident, as if one bought a top hat for a wedding, and discovered later when a fire broke out, that it could be used as a water bucket.”

Ifs Has Beens Science Used Water Fire Discipline Tools Accounts Accidents Practicals Broke Useless Abstract Department Hats Buckets Top Hats

Book:The World of Mathematics

Source: The World of Mathematics

“Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq.”

Laughing Imagine Sitting Gold Iraq Usa Department Troops Burned Interiors Forts Smithsonian

Author:Ted Rall

“Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!”

Looks Done Department Units Animation Animator

Author:Ralph Bakshi

“I am glad that Congress has recently authorized $800,000 to State welfare agencies to expand their day-care services during the remainder of this fiscal year. But we need much more. We need the $8 million in the 1965 budget for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare allocated to this purpose.”

Needs Years States Care Purpose Millions Equal Congress Glad Budgets Welfare Agency Department Equal Pay Health Education Day Care

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

“Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be... a goal of reporters today.”

Should Today Goal Justice Seeking Department Reporters Judicial Judicial System

Author:John Ensign

“We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.”

States Shows Might Education Millions Approach Committed Department Sophisticated Assistance

Author:Margaret Spellings

“It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.”

Ifs Honesty Terrible Integrity Police Department Los Angeles Cop Honesty And Integrity Police Department

Author:Daryl Gates

“The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.”

Moving Understanding Issues Security Communication Involved Department Homeland Homeland Security Department Of Homeland Security

Author:Warren Rudman

“It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.”

“Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.”

Artist Process Cities Landscape Department Engineering Freeways

Author:Arthur Erickson

“The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country.”

Country Given Cities Half New York Dollars Billions Department More Money Stood Up

Author:Michael Chertoff

“Today the Justice Department did issue a blanket alert. It was in recognition of a general threat we received. This is not the first time the Justice Department have acted like this. I hope it is the last. But given the attitude of the evildoers, it may not be.”

Firsts May Today Lasts Given President Justice Attitude Issues First Time Threat Recognition Department Blanket

Author:George W. Bush

“If what you are claiming is true, I would have shouted it from the rooftops. I would have gone to the authorities, the FBI, the police, the Democratic (Party) anybody that would listen. I wouldn't depend on one guy with the Department of Transportation.”

Ifs Guy Party Gone Depends Authority Police Democratic Department Democratic Party Fbi Transportation Rooftops

Author:Alan Colmes