"My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films."
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"Marriage is a great institution."
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"The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions"
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"The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others."
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"The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival."
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"The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment"
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"Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close."
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"Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit."
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"There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind."
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"A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]"
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"Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries."
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"The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms."
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"Friendship is not something you can learn in college or some learning institution, no one knows how to become friends you just become but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you haven't learned anything"
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"Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him."
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"Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution."
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"No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness."
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"The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution."
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"The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it."
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"In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has been doing its best to become an inconvenience."
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"For what I get paid to get into the ring, I owe it to my fans to uphold the institution of sportsmanship."
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