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The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about attention, opinion

An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast...

An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about union, peace

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 least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on...

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about essential, thinking

The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about opinion, body, work

There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about criticism, peace, time

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about peace, day

Finally in the summer of 1974, we tried our first experiments in desperate need of results to be presented at the VIth International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, Kandersteg, 1974.

Quote by Richard Ernst about need

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops recently formed a...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops recently formed a task force to struggle with how to deal with pro-choice Catholic politicians.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about fight, force, police

I was doing the university circuit-I do conferences on my...

I was doing the university circuit-I do conferences on my work and if all goes well they give me a concert or two in the university.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about work

The old gentlemen called a conference among themselves...

The old gentlemen called a conference among themselves for the next day and went home for slumbers so essential in their advanced years.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about essential, home, old, olderness, day

Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about nation

The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about fight, conflict, order, peace, world

The Peace Conference was the scene, or, shall we say, the first stage, in a tremendous struggle between the new forces, the new hopes and aspirations to which the agony of the World War had given birth, and the champions of the old order in...

Quote by Arthur Henderson about patriotism, fight, force, order, peace, war, old, olderness, world

People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn't.

People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn't.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about commerce, people

The network would snap just when you were explaining an...

The network would snap just when you were explaining an important point over a NetMeeting conference call.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.

Quote by Brian De Palma about mistery, press, things, film

While I was in school I did everything from washing...

While I was in school I did everything from washing bottles in a science lab to managing conferences on employment problems.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about education, problems, science, school

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