"It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families."
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"Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority."
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"The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority."
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"There is no authority who decides what is a good idea."
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"I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again."
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"Power people are generally threatened by authority people."
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"Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him."
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"Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant."
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"You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility."
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"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism."
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"Kim Jong Un is an unreasonable leader and a very dangerous person. Yet he is the person who has effective control over North Korea, and he is the person who has the authority to denuclearize North Korea."
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"Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis."
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"Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority."
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"Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built."
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"New faces have more authority than accustomed ones."
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"One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'"
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"You have authority over every storm you can sleep in"
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"I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word."
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"Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around."
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"Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions."
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