"I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities."
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"It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished."
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"The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins."
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"Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using."
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"Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most."
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"Authority must be respected and chosen wisely."
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"Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is anti-human and intolerable in the deepest sense"
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"To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer."
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"If there's anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out."
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"Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected."
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"The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime."
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"Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most."
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"Authority and example lead the world."
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"Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority."
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"Authority is always built on service and sacrifice."
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"As the beauty of the picture depends not on the painter but on the picture itself, what I say must depend on its own intrinsic value and not on the authority of my attainment, nor on the authority of others."
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"It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced."
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"Part of the power of the Internet is that information flows out there and it's generally not censored and it's generally not controlled by any single authority."
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"[Management] has authority only as long as it performs."
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"I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he's not a person who is going to give you respect if you don't deserve it just because you say something."
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