Delegates Quotes
39 quotes by 35 authors
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Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
— Theodor Adorno
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
— David McCullough
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Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should unite in forming…
— George Washington
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If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over…
— John Oliver
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Do one of three things. One, go and find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing -- but…
— Saul Alinsky
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I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at…
— Fredrik Bajer
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The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires…
— Atul Gawande
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It's very important, who has the most delegates. The superdelegates should not be the ones making the decision.
— Linda Chavez-Thompson
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I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to…
— Dana Rohrabacher
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Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
— A B Simpson
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I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those…
— Hideki Tojo
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An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning…
— Daniel Yergin
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But the fundamentalists, the "creationists," seize upon these vacancies in the scientific hotel to pack the conferences with their delegates. They see the opening-creativity is…
— Ken Wilber
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Welcome delegates to the 2012 Republican Convention! Remember to set your watches back 400 years.
— Andy Borowitz
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Only nine States have been represented since my arrival till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States…
— William Whipple
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We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the…
— Shigeru Yoshida
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The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or to…
— Augusto Boal
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The thing I love so much about the UN, is that they're so obviously corrupt. It's not like the Oil-for-Food scandal was even hard to…
— John Hamill
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When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying all…
— Paul Dirac
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