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"Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later."
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"The disciplined rule our world."

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

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

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

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

"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."
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"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself."

"Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later."

"The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers."

"There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech."

"Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice."

"Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts."

"Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it."

"There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative."
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