"This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it."

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Source : Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

John L. Lewis

#Heart Quotes #Organization Quotes #Support Quotes

“I remember Elvis as a young man hanging around the Sun Studios. Even then, I knew this kid had a tremendous talent. He was a dynamic young boy. His phraseology, his way of looking at a song, was as unique as Sinatra's. I was a tremendous fan, and had Elvis lived, there would have been no end to his inventiveness.”
“How do we bring glory to God? The Bibleâ€™s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.”
“But in my head I can hear Haymitch's smug, if slightly exasperated, words: "Yes, that's what I'm looking for, sweetheart.”
“To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.”

Source : Nigel Lawson (1992). “The View from No. 11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical”
“Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If it's peace you find in dying, well then let the time be near.”
“At noon, you walk across a river. It is dry, with not this much water: it is just stones and pebbles. But it rains cats and dogs in the mountains, and towards afternoon, the water descends wildly and she ravages all in its path, the madwoman. That is how death comes. Without our expecting it, and we cannot do a thing against it, brothers.”
“I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good.”

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