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"The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin."
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"I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority."

"The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes."

"The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction."

"Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience."

"The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe."
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"Our grief is not a cry for war."That's how New Yorkers feel," the driver said. "They know what bombing looks like, and they know the hell it is. But outside New York, people will feel guilty because they weren't here. They'll be yelling for revenge out of guilt and ignorance. Sure, we all want to catch the criminals, but only people who weren't in New York will want to bomb another country and repeat what happened here."

"Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice."

"Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!"

"If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story."

"Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world."

"What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group."
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