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I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground in the West Bank, and some day, a peace conference will ratify that which has been built on the ground.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Bank Been Built Conference Created Day Going Ground Palestinian Palestinian State Peace Some State Table Think West West Bank Which Will

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Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.

~Eric Liu

Topics: American Became Become Citizens Citizenship Conference Countries Ever Experience Hundreds Hundreds Of People Immigrants Last National Oath Organize People Room Someone States Stirring Swore Thirty United United States Watched Week You

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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Born Conference Died Ever Foolish Grand Idea Ideas Lot

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To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.

~Frances Perkins

Topics: Believes Civilization Conditions Conference Education Good Hope Industrial Machine Methods More Nothing Police Really Replacing Than Watch Who

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Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They studied meter with Ovid, plot construction with Homer, comedy with Aristophanes; they honed their prose style by absorbing the lucid sentences of Montaigne and Samuel Johnson.

~Francine Prose

Topics: Absorb Anyone Before Comedy Conference Construction Eye Homer Idea Johnson Learned Long Lucid Meter Plot Predecessors Prose Reading Samuel Sentences Studied Style Work Writer Writers

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

~Francis Bacon

Topics: Conference Exact Full Maketh Man Reading Ready Writing

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I'm just happy to be sitting right here in Chicago and right here at U.S. Cellular Field, holding my Hall of Fame press conference. I'm proud of that.

~Frank Thomas

Topics: Chicago Conference Fame Field Hall Happy Here Holding Just Press Proud Right Sitting

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A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

~Fred Allen

Topics: Conference Decide Done Gathering Nothing People Together Who

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The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

~Fred Allen

Topics: Advertising Advertising Agency Agency Been Bit Conference Desk Executive Exposed Forms Fungus Vice-President

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The first sales meeting I made was for the television movie 'Farrell for the People.' I walked into a conference room at NBC that I had built. It was my memorial conference room. There were 10 people at the meeting, and by habit, I sat at the head of the table.

~Fred Silverman

Topics: Built Conference First For The People Habit Had Head Made Meeting Memorial Movie Nbc People Room Sales Sat Table Television Walked Were

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