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Authority Quotes
"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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"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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"Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory."
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"He held up a finger and went to the hallway, where he tripped over Blotchy, and then over the two monster cats madly pursuing Blotchy. Swearing, he leaned over the landing and called to the guard that unless the kingdom fell to war or his daughter was dying, he better not be interrupted until further notice."
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"Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions."
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"In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels."
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"I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge."
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"We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate."
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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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"No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world."
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"Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security, and thereby we create authority, the worship of another, which destroys comprehension, that spontaneous tranquility of mind in which alone there can be a state of creativeness."
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"I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy."
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"The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority."
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"Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority."
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"The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin."
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"It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority."
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"If you should see any Indians you will oblige me by repeating this prohibition to them."
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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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"Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home."
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"I turned to leave and paused before the gap in the ruined wall. "One last thing, Your Majesty. I'd like a name I can put into my report, something shorter than typing out 'The Leader of the Southern Shapechanger Faction.' What should I call you?""Lord."I rolled my eyes.He shrugged. "It's short."
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"He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity."
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"The one, who likes to have an 'underhand', will inevitably come across a 'boss'!"
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"Had been equally obvious. The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organisers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists and professional politicians. These people, whose origins."
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