Authorities Quotes

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When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;… — Samuel Johnson
Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain… — Michel de Montaigne
For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting… — Craig Claiborne
Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally… — Ivan Illich
I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people.… — Alexei Navalny
It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the authorities - that… — Benjamin Spock
There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to… — Stellan Skarsgard
In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only… — Rod Taylor
We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have… — Paul Cellucci
There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight… — Klaus Fuchs
No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another. — Mahmoud Abbas
The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in… — Francis Galton
Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will… — George Soros
In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been… — Ma Jian
I am more than ever convinced of the dangers to which the free and unbiased exercise of political opinion - the only sure foundation and… — Martin Van Buren
In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the general government. I… — Thomas Jefferson
To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is… — Bertrand Russell
We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside… — Janet Yellen
If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the… — Serge Lang
The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons. — William Ralph Inge

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