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Authority Quotes
"Ay! Thornton o' Marlborough Mill, as we call him.- He is one of the masters you are striving with, is he not? what sort of master is he? - Did yo' ever see a bulldog? Set a bulldog on hindlegs, and dress him up in coat and breeches, and yo'n just getten John Thornton."
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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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"But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires."
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"Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question."
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"There's nothing like a military man, even out of uniform."
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"If I asked you to do something for me, I don't suppose you'd listen?' When he had my attention, he continued, 'I'm going to take you home. Try to forget tonight happened. Try to act normal, especially around Hank. Don't mention my name.'By way of an answer, I shot him a black look and swung out of the Tahoe. He followed suit, coming around to my side. 'What kind of answer is that?' He asked, but his voice wasn't nearly so gruff."
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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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"It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty."
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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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"An officer put me in my place from the first moment.I was standing by the billiard-table and in my ignorance blocking up the way, and he wanted to pass; he took me by the shoulders and without a word--without a warning or explanation--moved me from where I was standing to another spot and passed by as though he had not noticed me. I could have forgiven blows, but I could not forgive his having moved me without noticing me."
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"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."
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"Attention, aboard the shuttle! You are under arrest! Surrender immediately! Come out slowly, in single file, with your hands behind your heads! Leave all weapons behind. Comply and your lives will be spared!"
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"People need to learn how to take the role of leader out of God's hands."
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"Benevolence is often very peremptory."
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"We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) do not have the time to prove that 'ours' is correct; nor do 'we' have the time to make you correct as well."
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"If the devil is sending you thoughts of fear, resist him, stop the thoughts."
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"The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom."
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"If history has shown anything, it is that where there is a God, there is an institution trying to lock up that God in its lifeless structure of orthodoxy, in order to have authority over people and sell tickets to the Kingdom of that God. Thus emerged all the pompous lies about the extraterrestrial Kingdom of God or Heaven."
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"Girls fell all over him. Guys bought him beers.... 'Women eager to say they've been Zaned. You know there're T-shirts that say I've been ZANED."
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"The one, who likes to have an 'underhand', will inevitably come across a 'boss'!"
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"If you notice that devil hinder your work or demons disturb your family etc., then address them and cast them out of your circumstances."
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"This is the owner of Dark Haven. Master Xavier. Call him 'my liege.'Xavier sighed. He had no idea who'd first given him that title, but the submissives took such delight in it, he'd allowed it to continue."
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"It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the Bolsheviks want. Let me quote: "The personality of the artist should develop freely and without restraint. One thing, however, we demand: acknowledgement of our creed. Thus spoke one of the big Nazis, Dr. Rosenberg, Minister of Culture in Hitler's Germany. Another quote: "Every artist has the right to create freely; but we, Communists, must guide him according to plan. Thus spoke Lenin. Both of these are textual quotations, and their similitude would have been highly diverting had not the whole thing been so very sad."
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"Principal Principal: Where's your late pass, mister?Errant Student: I'm on my way to get one now. PP: But you can't be in the hall without a pass. ES: I know, I'm so upset. That's why I need to hurry, so I can get a pass. Principal Principal pauses with a look on his face like Daffy Duck's when Bugs is pulling a fast one. PP: Well, hurry up, then, and get that pass."
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"The one who never rebukes his underhand will have no boss in this world!"
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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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