"Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct."
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"Coolness is temporary. You can't capture it or create it, it has to be discovered. It has to do with the people that are in a place, not with monuments or institutions. It's a momentary conjunction of personalities."
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"Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely."
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"Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions."
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"The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend."
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"An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old."
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"Modifying the core institutions of the society is no small challenge."
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"U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here."
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"I would, however, question the implication that there is some novelty in this beyond modalities [of Mikhail Bakunin], which naturally change as institutions change and develop."
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"Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up."
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"It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent."
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"A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution."
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