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“This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays and every time there isa holiday it is the practice for one department to telephone over to another department and say we are going to have an extra holiday in this department and what is your department going to do about it.... If it comes on Saturday, they want a holiday on Friday, and of course they couldn't come back and travel on Sunday and so they want another holiday on Monday to get back on.”

Ifs Thinking Want Government Courses Practice Abuse Congress Extras Department Holiday Sunday Get Back Comment Saturday Telephones Monday Friday

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windowsthe displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcitymimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity.”

“In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift.”

Ifs Needs Writing America Order United States Fire Red Garden England Characteristics Department Telephones Vivid Procedures Solicitors Fire Department English Love

Book:Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

“In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one another are intricate and periodic; in fact, "galaxy" is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.”

Facts School President Term Sun Relation University Department Opposition Executives Bureaucracy Galaxy Dean Intricate Eclipse

Book:Teacher in America

Source: Teacher in America

“... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to institutions for boys, as they have done in the past.”

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)

“The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It wasobviated in the State Department and the War Department under [Secretary of State Elihu] Root and me [Taft was the Secretary of War], because we simply ignored the interference and went on as we chose.... The subordinates gained nothing by his assumption of authority, but it was not so in the other departments.”

War States Whole Truth Is Authority Roots Administration Assumption Department Secretary Ignored Interference Subordinates Demoralized Taft

Author:William Howard Taft

“Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.”

“I am a professor at the computer science department, but I don't know how to use a computer, not even for Email.”

Knows Use Science Know How Computer Mathematics Department Professors Email Computer Science

Author:Endre Szemeredi

“Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers intellectual capital; it does not create it....The less ministers know at the outset, the more dependent they are on the only sources of available knowledge; the permanent officials.”

“In the months ahead, I will leave the Department of Justice, but I will never -- I will never -- leave the work. I will continue to serve and try to find ways to make our nation even more true to its founding ideals.”

Way Trying Father Politics Nations Leadership Work Justice History Democracy Policy Months Ideals Constitution Strategy Ideology Department Founding

Author:Eric Holder

“Actors have seven tracks going in their minds: They've got all the research they've done for the part, then they have whatever the director asked them to do, then they've got what the departments like special effects need them to do.”

Needs Mind Done Actors Special Effects Directors Research Seven Track Department Special Effects

Author:Tobin Bell

“Shopping seemed to take an entirely too important place in women's lives. You never saw men milling around in men's departments. They made quick work of it. I used to wonder if shopping was a form of escape for women who had no worthwhile interests.”

Ifs Men Made Important Form Used Interest Wonder Saws Department Shopping Worthwhile

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]”

Reason Higher University Department Target Funding Philanthropic

Author:Wickliffe Rose

“Since when is the intelligence agency supposed to be an air force of drones that goes around killing people? I believe that it's a job for the department of defense.”

People Believe Jobs Force I Believe Air Killing Defense Supposed To Be Agency Department Air Force Drones Intelligence Agencies

Author:John McCain

“I ain't never been in no college with famous people. I was a drifter for a while. I just was desperate to fit in with a group. Really, I was swimming. I was lost, treading water, trying to find my way. I wanted to play football. It didn't work out. I didn't really know what I wanted until I found acting in a theater department, and then everything just fell into place, and I had a passion about something. Then, I started living my life.”

“A second Homeland Security official has been arrested, a 49-year-old guy named Frank Figueroa, he was caught exposing and fondling himself to a teenage girl in a shopping mall in Florida. Do you realize? If Osama bin Laden was a 14-year old girl, we would have had him by now. ... Who is going to start protecting us from the Department of Homeland Security? ... It kind of makes you long for the good old wholesome days of the Clinton administration.”

“The Department of Homeland Security recommends a three-day supply of water consisting of one bottle per day for each person in your home. Plus one extra bottle to give you all something to kill each other over on day four.”

Giving Persons Home Three Water Four Security Extras Department Plus Bottles Homeland Homeland Security Department Of Homeland Security

Author:Jon Stewart

“Today the Justice Department released e-mails where Walker criticized America. In the e-mails he said he never wanted to set foot in America again. See, that's the good part about hanging somebody. Their feet don't touch the ground.”

Said Today Wanted America Justice Feet Department Mail Walkers

Author:Jay Leno

“The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.”

Different Actors Department Clergy

Author:John Hurt

“Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.”

Men Looks Art Government Law Religion Justice Jew Lawyer Damn Department

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people.”

People Whole Eye Sleep Department Reports Inspectors Never Sleep

Author:William Thomas Stead

“Recognition for a job well done is high on the list of motivating influences for all people; more important in many instances than compensation itself. When someone is promoted, a promotion that everyone could see coming because of an excellent record, the entire department is stimulated. For it is clear, then, that promotions are based on merit. A promotion that seems to come out of the blue, which is always the case when no one knows what the next fellow is doing, causes nothing but resentment and a further weakening of the will to work.”

“Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so nutritious and stimulating a character that a new ecdysis seems imminent.”

Years Character Seems Lasts Growth Extraordinary Spread Fifty Department Physical Science

Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented and diluted as to be virtually nonexistent, and the organization becomes inherently evil.”

Evil Conscience Organization Institutions Department Fragmented

Book:Further Along The Road Less Travelled

Source: Further Along The Road Less Travelled

“Anyone with special abilities earns a differential return on that flair, which we economists call a rent. Those few with extraordinary P.Q. (Performance Quotient) will not give away such rent to the Ford Foundation or the local bank trust department. They have too high an I.Q. for that.”

Giving Ability Special Return Performances Foundation Extraordinary Investing Locals Department Economist Flair

Author:Paul Samuelson

“The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product.”

Knows Differences Products Management Department Manufacturing

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.”

Security Congress Budgets Department September Homeland Bipartisan September 11th Homeland Security Department Of Homeland Security

Author:Doc Hastings

“It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.”

Ethics Branches Department Sociology

Author:A.J. Ayer

“I believe in women; and in their right to their own best possibilities in every department of life. I believe that the methods ofdress practiced among women are a marked hindrance to the realization of these possibilities, and should be scorned or persuaded out of society.”

Should Believe I Believe Fashion Possibility Method I Believe In Realization Department Hindrance Scorned

Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“When institutions are endowed to train women for all departments connected with the family state, domestic labor, now so shunned and disgraced, will become honorable, will gain liberal compensation, and will enable every woman to secure an independence in employments suited to her sex. And when this is attained, there will be few or none who wish to enter the professions of men or take charge of civil government.”

Men States Government Wish Sex Gains Labor Independence Institutions Train Connected Profession Employment Secure Department Honorable Compensation

Author:Catharine Beecher

“The Department of Justice should resolutely bar monopolizing mergers in all markets, including telecommunications, but they are not in a position, as is the FCC, to promote new competition by selling the airwaves in auctions.”

Should Justice Position Internet Competition Including Bars Selling Department Free Speech Auctions Mergers Fcc Telecommunications Monopolizing

Author:Reed Hundt

“What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue generator, as opposed to serving the community, and that it systematically was biased against African-Americans in that city who were stopped, harassed, mistreated, abused, called names, fined.”

“The Executive is charged officially in the Departments under it with the disbursement of the public money, and is responsible for the faithful application of it to the purposes for which it is raised. The Legislature is the watchful guardian over the public purse. It is its duty to see that the disbursement has been honestly made.”

Has Beens Made Purpose Duty Responsible Raised Honestly Faithful Department Executives Application Guardian Purses Legislature Public Money

Book:James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“I don't know about you, but I'm betting that when it comes to doing the right and good thing, the Little Sisters of the Poor know better than the regulators at the Department of Health and Human Services.”

Knows Humans Littles Poor Health Good Things Department Betting Little Sister Regulators Human Service

Author:Jeb Bush

“We talked about the resources that the justice department has available to help them -- the technical assistance to ensure that we're diffusing situations, not encouraging them to spiral out of control.”

Helping Justice Situation Resources Available Department Assistance Spirals

Author:Valerie Jarrett

“My son has autism, and I founded the government relations department at Autism Speaks.”

Government Speak Son Relation Department My Son Autism

Author:Elizabeth Emken

“The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.”

Government Communication Internet Research Starting Defense Department Funding

Author:Robin Hayes

“Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.”

States Running Today Interest United United States Internet Department Commerce Entity Private Sector Supervision Nonprofits

Author:Robin Hayes

“The State Department allowed Hillary Clinton to remove and destroy government email records, and now we've figured out the State Department is improperly giving government documents to the Clinton operation - documents that should have been turned over to us years ago.”

Giving Should Years Has Beens States Government Records Years Ago Should Have Clinton Operations Department Remove Documents Email Should Have Been

Author:Tom Fitton

“The largest business in American handled by a woman is the Money Order Department of the Pittsburgh Post-office; Mary Steel has it in charge.”

Order Office Posts Department Mary Steel Pittsburgh Post Office

Author:Lydia Hoyt Farmer

“Working very closely with the Department of Homeland Security to match up what is available with what is needed.”

Security Needed Available Department Homeland Homeland Security Department Of Homeland Security

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“Brothers and Sisters: Our ancient homeland is spotted today with an array of chemical dumps. Along the Niagara River, dioxin, a particularly deadly substance, threatens the remaining life there and in the waters which flow from there. Forestry departments spray the surviving forests with powerful insecticides to encourage tourism by people seeking a few days or weeks away from the cities where the air hangs heavy with sulphur and carbon oxides.”

“Making ziti for the Chicago Fire Department! I hope they're not too busy today, but this should fill their bellies I hope they like it!”

Should Today Fire Busy Department Chicago Belly Too Busy Fire Department

Author:Lady Gaga

“I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.”

Kids Mother Saws Stores Department Take Me Santa Department Stores

Author:Terry Zwigoff

“Being movie director you've got the art department, you've got the actors, you've got the camera department, you've got make-up and hair, and props. You've got your finger in all these pies, and you're making sure that everything cooks at the right temperature.”

Art Actors Hair Directors Cameras Fingers Cooks Department Pie Temperature Props Movie Director

Author:Michael Fassbender

“Here's the problem with Common Core. The Department of Education, like every federal agency, will never be satisfied. They will not stop with it being a suggestion. They will turn it into a mandate.In fact, what they will begin to say to local communities is, you will not get federal money unless do you things the way we want you to do it. And they will use Common Core or any other requirements that exists nationally to force it down the throats of our people in our states.”

People Way Want States Facts Use Problem Turns Force Community Common Core Satisfied Locals Agency Department Throat Requirements Suggestions Mandates Local Community Common Core

Author:Marco Rubio

“My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.”

Knows Needs Years Book Problem Position Marketing Genre Department Booksellers Hopping Marketing And Sales

Author:F. Paul Wilson

“My role as the chair of the fashion department at Parsons put me face to face with all the big designers, retailers, and editors. Since I was moving in these new circles regularly, I realized I needed to do something about my own personal style. It was really Diane von Furstenberg who gave me the nudge.”

Bigs Faces Moving My Own Roles Fashion Style Needed I Realized Circles Designer Department Chairs Editors Face To Face Moving In Personal Style Nudge Retailers

Author:Tim Gunn

“In some ways, many of the skills you have as a producer on independent films also apply to making big tentpole films: You surround yourself with a brilliant director, great script and talented people in every department who are smarter than you.”

People Way Bigs Film Directors Skills Independent Scripts Brilliant Producers Department Surround Smarter Surround Yourself Independent Film

Author:David Heyman

“Before any movie of yours gets made, it will be vetted by the studio's marketing department. So, you do have to answer the question: Who is your movie for?”

Made Answers Marketing Studios Made It Department

Author:Thomas Lennon

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