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Authority Quotes
"Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory."
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"'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions."
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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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"It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority."
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"I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge."
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"Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates."
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"This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims."
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"I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!"
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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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"Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?"
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"In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels."
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"Now, what happens if you eliminate anything from the Bible that offends your sensibility and crosses your will? If you pick and choose what you want to believe and reject the rest, how will you ever have a God who can contradict you? You won't! You'll have ...A God, essentially, of your own making, and not a God with whom you can have a relationship and genuine interaction. Only if your God can say things that outrage you and make you struggle (as in a real friendship or marriage!) will you know that you have gotten hold of a real God and not a figment of your imagination. So an authoritative Bible is not the enemy of a personal relationship with God. It is the precondition for it."
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"His Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism, or small belonging systems. We don't really like the big Kingdom if it gets in the way of our smaller kingdoms, and it always does."
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"The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957."
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"If you should see any Indians you will oblige me by repeating this prohibition to them."
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"Liam can't be a rebellious son and expect to be a sentinel at the same time. I won't allow it. Sentinels obey orders. They have to."
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"The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority."
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"Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority."
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"Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?! Who are YOU to question my behavior, HUH??? What gives you the right?! Hobbes: Santa makes the toys, so he gets to decide who to give them to.Calvin: Oh."
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"No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world."
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"Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority."
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"We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate."
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"The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority."
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"The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin."
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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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"Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home."
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"For a trial is initiated not to render justice but to annihilate the defendant.Even when the trial is of dead people, the point is to kill them off a second time: by burning their books; by removing their names from the schoolbooks; by demolishing their monuments; by rechristening the streets that bore their names."
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"The most powerful affirmation doesn't come from the conscious mind but from your Soul, an affirmation in which you are not trying to convince yourself of something you don't believe, but rather you are becoming aware of the truth and the reality of what you truly are."
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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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