"the best committee's a committee of one!"

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Source : Naomi Mitchison (1997). “Lobsters on the Agenda”, Birlinn Publishers

Naomi Mitchison

#Committees Quotes

“My health is important, so I learn everything I can about nutrition.”
“I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.”
“What kind of life can you have in a house without books?”

Source : Sherman Alexie (2013). “Flight: A Novel”, p.16, Open Road Media
“Time stoops to no man's lure.”

Source : Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866). “Laus Veneris, and other poems and ballads. [Orig. publ. as Poems and ballads]. Author's ed”, p.192
“I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.”
“I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.”
“One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't get too low when it's low. And what I found during the course of the presidency, and I suppose this is true in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news cycle to bear fruit.”
“Everybody hurts sometimes Everybody cries”

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