If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.


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ALFRED EISENSTAEDT
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
ALFRED NOBEL
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, ...
ALFRED ADLER
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die
ALFRED TENNYSON
I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were...
ALFRED MOLINA
My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands ...
ALFRED JODL
Major markets are a key factor in advertise and budgeting decisions.
ALFRED AMOROSO
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
ALFRED KAZIN
Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
ALFRED JARRY
Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to...
ALFRED POLGAR
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster...
ALFRED JARRY
It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back...
ALFRED TORRIE
The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse whil...
ALFRED BUNN
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
ALFRED SHEINWOLD
Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED TENNYSON
... everything based on arguments involving the ''is'' of identidy and the older el (elementalistic)...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI
Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
ALFRED TENNYSON
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
ALFRED TENNYSON
A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
ALFRED TENNYSON
We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
ALFRED JARRY
It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up ...
ALFRED JARRY
Puns are the highest form of literature.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people s...
ALFRED TENNYSON
Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his ...
ALFRED TENNYSON
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
I am a part of all that I have met.
ALFRED TENNYSON
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
ALFRED MERCIER
It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathe...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carryin...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagon...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
ALFRED JARRY
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
ALFRED JARRY