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  • If you carry this resolution, you will send a Foreign Secretarywhoever he may benaked into the conference chamber.You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

    - Aneurin Bevan
      Labour Party conference speech against unilateral disarmament, Oct.

  • No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

    - F(rancis) Scott Key Fitzgerald
    Note Books, E, in Edmund Wilson (ed)  The Crack-Up (1945).

  • Nowadays a sales conference resembles a Passion play: everybody is invited to participate and marvel at the drama.

    - Charles,Jr Scribner
    In the Company ofWriters: A Life in Publishing.

  • O, that it were possible, We might but hold some two days'conference With the dead!

    -John Webster
      The Duchess of Malfi, act 4, sc.2.

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