#heir

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#committee #committees #dies #flowers #grows

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#changes #completely #development #except #factual

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#desire #even #fame #having #read

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#forced #hell #own #special #their

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#fallen #hasn #i #life #lifeless

I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York. ↗

— George Pataki

#arena #believe #enters #everyone #for the people

You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can. ↗

— George Pataki

#doing #enormous #help #know #others

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#become #close #comfort #danger #fact

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere. ↗

— Alexandra Paul

#electric #electric cars #energy #get #somewhere

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up. ↗

— Alexandra Paul

#buying #car #change #continue #fueled