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“Both HUD and the Department of Justice began bringing lawsuits against mortgage bankers when a higher percentage of minority applicants than white applicants were turned down for mortgage loans. A substantial majority of both black and white mortgage loan applicants had their loans approved but a statistical difference was enough to get a bank sued.”

Enough Black Differences Justice White Higher Majority Department Minorities Black And White Loan Percentages Bankers Mortgage Approved Turned Down Lawsuit

Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“At every other workplace in the nation - even Mal-Mart! - workers are being laid off. But no one at any of the bloated government bureaucracies ever need fear receiving a pink slip. All 64,750 employees at the department of Health and Human Services are apparently absolutely crucial to the smooth functioning of the department.”

Needs Humans Government Nations Workers Department Employee Crucial Slips Receiving Smooth Workplace Bureaucracy Government Bureaucracy Laid Off Human Service

Author:Ann Coulter

“Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.”

Looks Action Past Law Individual Nations Sound Community Needed Resources Police Innocent Department Crucial Discourse Law Enforcement Enforcement Racial Profiling Police Department

Author:Benjamin Jealous

“These settlements [Justice Department with lenders] include requirements that banks lend to minorities at below-market rates and, in effect, dish out cash to politically favored 'community groups.' It's a good bet that many of these loans will eventually go bad.”

Community Justice Groups Effects Rate Department Minorities Cash Dishes Requirements Loan Settlement Lenders

Author:Mary Kissel

“You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus.”

Needs Whole Courses Consequence Features Department Resentment Preaching Campus Victimhood Polarization

Author:Thomas Sowell

“There's a lot wrong [with American universities]. I'd remove 3/4 of the faculty - everything but the hard sciences. But nobody's going to do that, so we'll have to live with the defects. It's amazing how wrongheaded [the teaching is]. There is fatal disconnectedness. You have these squirrelly people in each department who don't see the big picture.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“A different set of incentives from rising in an economic establishment where the rewards system, again, the reinforcement, comes from being a truffle hound. That's what Jacob Viner, the great economist called it: the truffle hound - an animal so bred and trained for one narrow purpose that he wasn't much good at anything else, and that is the reward system in a lot of academic departments.”

Different Purpose Animal Economic Rewards Rising Department Establishment Academic Economist Incentives Jacob Hounds Reinforcement Truffles

Author:Charlie Munger

“It's so wonderful and creative to go in and tell the wardrobe department what you want to wear and how you want your hair to look. That's great, for an actor. The actors get to do more than they would, normally.”

Want Looks Actors Creative Wonderful Hair What You Want Department Wardrobe

Author:Jim Piddock

“When we were young, there weren't very many smart people in the investment world. You should have seen the people in the bank trust departments. Now, there are armies of smart people at private investment funds, etc . If there were a crisis now, there would be a lot more people with a lot of money ready to take advantage.”

People Ifs World Should Would Be Young Ready Smart Advantage Should Have Army Crisis Investment Department Etc Fund Lots Of Money Smart People

Author:Charlie Munger

“Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.”

Mind Development Research Devil Department Idle Research And Development

Author:Robert Stacy McCain

“Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.”

Modern Fields Research University Pursuit Department Devoted Ideological

Book:The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America

Source: The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America

“I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline.”

Ifs Has Beens Civilization Department Chemistry Harvard Gasoline Great Gifts Sticky Napalm

Book:Hocus Pocus

Source: Hocus Pocus

“[in 1998] I know my political ideas affect what I write but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every topic I've written about begins as a question. How do police departments behave? Why do bureaucracies function the way they do? What moral intuitions do people have? How do courts make their decisions? What do blacks want from the political system? I can honestly say I didn't know the answers to those questions when I began looking into them.”

“Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we need a balanced tool chest of diplomatic and military tools alike. Instead, we have a billionaire military and a pauper diplomacy. The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has in its foreign service - and that's preposterous.”

“To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.”

Natural Medicine Profession Chosen Branches Department Chemistry Assistance Natural History

Book:Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes

Source: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes

“Keeping the cat front-and-center was definitely a smart choice, from Tim and the animation department. Mr. Whiskers got referred to more than we actually saw him on stage. Seeing him on screen, you just love him.”

Choices Saws Seeing Stage Fronts Smart Cat Screens Department Animation Whiskers Smart Choices

Author:John August

“I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager. I grew up dusting lenses and learning about photography.”

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Author:Colin Hanks

“Be able to take any job that gives you experience on a film. Don't just think that you have to be in one department or the other, because through working on one and seeing what other people do in the movie makes you realize what your role is if you become a costume designer.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Able Jobs Film Realizing Roles Seeing Designer Department Costumes

Author:Colleen Atwood

“If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little.”

Ifs Children Littles Break Cry Down And Stores Arguing Treated Department Breaking Down Ifs And Department Stores

Author:Michael Jackson

“As the local police department might want to decrypt a phone of a criminal suspect, so would the Chinese or the Russian or the Iranian intelligence agencies like to be able to do exactly the same thing.”

Want Might Able Police Phones Criminals Locals Chinese Agency Department Suspects Iranian Intelligence Agencies Police Department

Author:Matt Blaze

“Last night the Taliban offered to release eight Westerners if the U.S. promised not to attack. The State Department declined but thanked the Taliban for the offer, saying it really felt good to laugh again.”

Ifs States Lasts Night Felt Laughing Offers Eight Release Department Last Night Taliban Westerners

Author:Tina Fey

“Everyone is a little bit more close-knit and you rely on people a little bit more. The bigger the budget gets, the more everyone toes the line in their department.”

People Littles Bits Lines Little Bit Bigger Budgets Rely Department Toes

Author:Thomas Ian Nicholas

“If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn't even think about discrimination.”

Ifs Thinking Psychology Goes On Discrimination Department Graduates

Author:Betty Friedan

“I will go anywhere if you say the phrase 'there might be cake.' I would go to the Department of Motor Vehicles, register somebody else's boat in Spanish, a language I do not speak, without ID - for cake.”

Ifs Might Speak Language Boat Phrases Department Cake Vehicle Motor Register Motor Vehicles

Author:Greg Behrendt

“My department is not too big for one man, because I'm Superman.”

Men Bigs Department One Man

Author:John Prescott

“There`s a division in most major police departments called, `Special Victims Unit,` which is what sex crimes are euphemistically called. They`re considered the most heinous crimes, when not only do you violate somebody, but you violate them sexually. So it`s an elite squad that takes care of that.”

Care Sex Special Crime Majors Police Victim Take Care Department Division Elites Units Sexually Squad Police Department Heinous Crimes

Author:Richard Belzer

“If you're a leader, your whole reason for living is to help human beings develop - to really develop people and make work a place that's energetic and exciting and a growth opportunity, whether you're running a Housekeeping Department or Google. I mean, this is not rocket science.”

People Ifs Humans Mean Reason Whole Helping Running Opportunity Growth Human Beings Leader Exciting Department Google Rockets Energetic Housekeeping Rocket Science

Author:Tom Peters

“Usually the people that peak in high school are tragic, tragic adults. Most of them end up working for the water department in their hometown and driving around said high school as the decades slip past.”

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Author:Dana Gould

“Did the Prime Minister have some sort of grudge against you by sending this publicity crazed person into your Department?”

Persons Ministers Department Prime Prime Minister Publicity Grudge

Author:David Winnick

“I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial pages.... So I began to use a camera to make fake photographs of the ads. By re-photographing a magazine page and then developing the film in a cheap lab, the photos came out very strange.”

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Author:Richard Prince

“I would like to dissolve the $10 billion national Department of Education created by President Carter and turn schools back to the local school districts, where we built the greatest public school system the world has ever seen. I think I can make a case that the decline in the quality of public education began when federal aid became federal interference.”

“When my son was a mere three months old, I started working at the State Department. I was not only the youngest Assistant Secretary of State but I was also a breastfeeding mother. I'm the first to admit that this felt crazy at times, and the balancing act is never ever easy. But my two kids are the most wonderful things that have ever happened to me.”

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Author:Susan Rice

“A good rule of thumb is as follows: If the numbers come from somebody wearing a tie (Wall Street economist or analyst, industry public relations department, captive think tank academic and so on), you ought to be very skeptical. By design messages from these people are intended to move markets, move merchandise and/or move public policy and are not a comment on the state of the physical universe.”

“If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Whole Checks Department Cream

Author:Freida Pinto

“If a person ever came to me as a fan and tried to go out on a date, I wouldn't. I've had enough kind of crazy experiences in that department.”

Ifs Kind Persons Enough Crazy Fans Department Had Enough

Author:Meredith Brooks

“I studied music for my first two years in college. When I went to UC Berkeley, I failed the admission requirements to get into the music school there, so I studied communications and public policy, which actually were a greater engine for my career than a musical education would have been. If I had gotten into the music department at Berkeley, I'd probably be a timpanist in an orchestra right now.”

“It takes so many people to make a success story like that. It starts with the song and the songwriters, then Mark Wright's producing, all of the players that played on it, me singing, the marketing department, the promotion department at the label... It takes a lot of people to make a hit like that.”

People Stories Song Player Singing Mark Marketing Labels Department Songwriters Promotion Success Stories

Author:Lee Ann Womack

“We have to remember examples of many artists of conscious rap who have been coopted by the Department of State of the United States to be cultural ambassadors in different parts of the world, like Syria, like other parts of the Middle East, including conscious Islamic-American rappers that are representing an international political agenda for the United States through cultures more affable for people of color in other parts of the world.”

“It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.”

Fire Normal Ordinary Favors Department Socialist Perfectly Normal Fire Department

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“I do think that we'd do better if we just offered all the bureaucrats in the Department of Education very attractive early retirements. But whether you want to abolish the department is another matter. Maybe there's room for recruiting a lot of visionary people who would do very good things: develop new techniques, new ideas, foster innovative models, disseminate those ideas.”

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Author:Seymour Papert

“Since the police department is becoming more and more militarized we're stuck in a position where we're reverting to that sort of behaviour that other places still suffer from because they're kept in that post-colonial state of development indefinitely so we can reap the benefits of taking whatever natural resources they have.”

“I had a lot of jobs, because I wanted to be an actor, and I had this bad habit of wanting to eat regularly. So, I had to make some money somewhere. I was everything from a stock worker in an Alexander's department store to flower delivery person to a messenger to a grocery clerk to a gas station attendant. I even worked in Macy's dusting off fur coats for two weeks.”

“If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.”

Ifs Sports Nfl Department Toys

Author:Margaret Mead

“Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.”

Computer Research Department Users Computer Science Interfaces Sissy User Interface

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“Computing has gone from something tiny and specialized to something that affects every walk of life. It doesn't make sense anymore to think of it as just one discipline. I expect to see separate departments of user interface, for example, to start emerging at universities.”

Thinking Walks Gone Example Discipline University Tiny Make Sense Just One Department Users Emerging Computing Walks Of Life Interfaces User Interface

Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“Hostess Bakery plants shut down due to a workers' strike. It was split up. The State Department hired all the Twinkies, the Secret Service hired all the HoHos, the generals are sleeping with the Cupcakes and the voters sent all the Ding Dongs to Congress.”

States Sleep Secret Plant Workers Congress Dues Strikes Department Voters Splits Cupcakes Secret Service Hostesses Bakeries

Author:Argus Hamilton

“Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.”

Whole Train Educated Officials Department Single Word One Sided Train Of Thought

Book:The castle

Source: The castle

“Collaborate, don't dictate. Every department head has something to offer. Listen and gratefully accept their offerings. They're moviemakers, too.”

Accepting Offers Department Offering

Author:George A. Romero

“The State Department said the countries that are most stealing our best ideas also are our best allies.”

Said Ideas Country States Stealing Department Allies

Author:Louis J. Freeh

“There is no question that an important service is provided to investors by investment companies, investment advisors, trust departments, etc. This service revolves around the attainment of adequate diversification, the preservation of a long-term outlook, the ease of handling investment decisions and mechanics, and most importantly, the avoidance of the patently inferior investment techniques which seem to entice some individuals.”

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