"My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions."

Authority, College, Parents, Question

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"The disciplined rule our world."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Challenge authority, the authority of your own rational convictions."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"If you are in Christ, then you have the heavenly position of His authority and operate on this earth in His name as someone who is from above."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Your expertise can elevate your impressions to bring you to an entirely new realm."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"That in the captain's but a choleric word,Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Tyrants have only one problem in life.They simply just wanna rule everything."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Knowledge imparts a sense of authority. It will help you stand out and give you an edge over your competition."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"What is samkit (enlightened view; right belief)? One has to realize the complete authoritative power, and accept everyone's worldly authority. People abuse their acquired authority and consequently loose their right for human birth (manushyapanu). Accept whatever authority one has."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business."

Business, War, People, Building

"It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public."

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"We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother."

Brother, Thought, Gender

"I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up."

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"I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was."

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"I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere."

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"The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical."

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"Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication."

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"Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist."

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"You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition."

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