"It is difficult to find another branch of knowledge where a small amount of study produces such great results in increased efficiency in a country where the people rule, as in parliamentary law."

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Source : Henry Martyn Robert (2000). “Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised”, Da Capo Press

Henry Martyn Robert

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“Believe me - I've done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don't regret the crazy stuff.”
“I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.”
“Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happens is the same: that which is now seen and now grasped is not, in its clearness, the shadowy thing that was.”

Source : Jens Peter Jacobsen (2008). “Niels Lyhne”, p.20, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“Our children will work in energy tomorrow - they just won't work in fossil fuels, in the meantime, for social justice, economic justice and stability, we need ... negotiated, planned outcomes that people can touch at both the national and industry and enterprise level.”
“One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an institution. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture.”

Source : Marshall Sahlins (2013). “Stone Age Economics”, p.38, Routledge
“If I can drop two touchdowns a game and win, I'll take it every time.”
“I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When it comes to the iconic moments, you sort of have to take all of those things and distill them the same way the costumers do and everybod Distill them and then find your own. The most iconic moment in the movie is, assuming they do, when they assemble.”

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