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"And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority."
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"I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority."
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"He believed that rank without power was a sham."
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"New faces have more authority than accustomed ones."
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"Depression arises when one uses his power and authority. Whatever authority there is, it is there for giving happiness to others. Authority is to give happiness to others, even to those who are guilty of doing wrong."
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"But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes."
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"God gave us His spirit, for us to have the power and authority to uproot lawlessness and establish God's righteousness."
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"Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort."
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"There's nothing like a military man, even out of uniform."
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"Why does anyone have a lot of rules? So they can boss people around, I guess."
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"Oh lord and master. High muckety-muck."
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"No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India."
History
"In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language."
Language
"It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be."
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"And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority."
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"And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools."
Time
"The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance."
Love
"On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger."
Death
"For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples."
People
"Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights."
Life
"Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic."
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