Quotes with appointment

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• Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

  ― George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

  ― Stendhal
  French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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• Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

  ― George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.

  ― Thurgood Marshall
  American lawyer, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court (1908 - 1993)
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• If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.

  ― Richard Cecil
  British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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• The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

  ― Ben Bernanke
  American economist (1953 - )
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• Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

  ― Horace Mann
  American educator (1796 - 1859)
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• We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

  ― Samuel Beckett
  Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• inflation-fighting
• unfaithfulness
• appointment
• punctuality
• credibility
• appointing

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