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If you've got a corporation, and you throw out one of the founding partners that is responsible in part for making the organization what it is today, you have to compensate that person. You have to come to a settlement.

~Dickey Betts

Topics: Come Compensate Corporation Founding Got Making Organization Out Part Partners Person Responsible Settlement Throw Today You

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In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.

~Doc Hastings

Topics: Fathers Foundation Founding Founding Fathers Independence Liberties Nation Our Remain Secure Sought Summer Today

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In the fifties, no one wore beards. In Eisenhower's day, as in the time of the Founding Fathers, all chins were smooth, while during the Civil War, beards were as common as sepsis.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Civil Civil War Common Day Eisenhower Fathers Fifties Founding Founding Fathers Smooth Time War Were While Wore

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The Koch brothers tend to give to right-leaning and libertarian causes. Koch money was instrumental, for example, in founding the Cato Institute and the Libertarian Party.

~Donald Luskin

Topics: Brothers Causes Example For Example Founding Give Institute Instrumental Libertarian Money Party Tend

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Maintaining control indefinitely over millions of Palestinians will inevitably lead to a demographic nightmare and cannot be sustained if Israel is to remain true to its founding principles.

~Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Topics: Cannot Control Demographic Founding Indefinitely Inevitably Israel Lead Maintaining Millions Nightmare Over Palestinians Principles Remain Sustained True Will

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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Adulation Career Earned Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Hail His Long Long Career Merely Now Ordinary Ordinary People Other People Throughout Washington Whom

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Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: After Best Brief Business Could Death Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Franklin Go Got His House House Of Representatives James Known Listening Madison Months Mourning Notice Official Representatives Some Sort Then Tribute Two Voted Wear Without

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Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Alexander Behind Brilliant Career Constitutional Convention Everybody Father Founding Hamilton He His Just Knows Left Only Secretary States Sure Thirty Time Treasury Turned United United States Young

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The American public believes the Founding Fathers were close to infallible and that, while our political system has its faults, it functions far better than other democracies. But is it true?

~Elizabeth Flock

Topics: American American Public Believes Better Close Democracy Far Fathers Faults Founding Founding Fathers Functions Infallible Other Our Political Political System Public System Than True Were While

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Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.

~Eric Allman

Topics: Always Any Code Company Down Find Founding More Much Personally Sadly Sides Time Too Too Much Work

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