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"I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority."
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"The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes."
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"Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome."
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"Majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows."
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"Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it."
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"Tell me what the fuck you want me to do, and I'll do it."
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"He believed that rank without power was a sham."
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"Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect."
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"Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter."
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"The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology."
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"Despair has its own calms."
Despair
"It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight."
Body
"It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?"
World
"Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain."
Mystery
"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."
Heart
"He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please."
Authority
"A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century."
Patience
"How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams."
Dream
"Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country."
Nation
"Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere."
Man
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