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• What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what seems the most fundamental and most pervasive in all the ensuing changes is the loss of faith in authority: the authority of government, of science, of patriarchy, of progress, of capitalism, of violence, of whiteness.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Change, Loss, Government

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• For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.

  May Sinclair

  Men, Average, Imagination

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• Other problems confront women in power. One is fine but two's a crowd seems to be an unspoken rule when the one wears a skirt. And those in authority have found ways to reward women for excluding others of their kind.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Power, Two, Rewards

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• The very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism. ... It [was] developed ... in the hope of throwing light upon questions of policy. But policy means nothing unless there is an authority to carry it out, and authorities are national.

  Joan Robinson

  Mean, Light, Economics

  Joan Robinson (1962). “Economic philosophy”, p.124, Transaction Publishers

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• Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are still "covert adolescent rebels." In subtle ways, we encourage the adolescent patient to rebel towards parents, school authorities, and society in general.

  Virgil Miller Newton

  School, Parent, Rebel

  "Adolescence: Guiding Youth Through the Perilous Ordeal". Book by Miller Newton, 1995.

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• The leaders of the Pahlavi regime, in an attempt to forestall the rising tide of the Islamic revolutionary movement, were hard at work to cast doubt on the question of the Imam Khomeini's position as a Marja'a (a top religious authority) and in this way, undermine public faith in his academic, political and religious competence.

  Yousef Saanei

  Religious, Islamic, Leader

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• Either Christ is a liar or war is never necessary, and very properly assuming that Christ told the truth, it follows that the State is without [in the words of Father Macksey] 'judicial authority to determine when war is necessary,' because it is never necessary.

  Ben Salmon

  Father, War, Liars

  "Ben Salmon On War". Book by Ben Salmon, pp. 86 - 87, "Personal critique of just war doctrine", 1921.

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• Remarriage is or is not approved in shastra; I have no authority to speak on this subject. But I surely cannot go on without saying this much, that remarriage has helped a great deal in stopping crime in Fiji.

  Totaram Sanadhya

  Stopping, Fiji, Goes On

  Totaram Sanadhya, John Dunham Kelly, Uttra Kumari Singh (1991). “My twenty-one years in the Fiji Islands ; and, The story of the haunted line”

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• Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine.

  John Waters

  Children, Hate, Fine

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• there are camels which have the quality which in humans is called the revolutionary spirit, and the caravan leader fears to keep one of these in his ranks, because its instinct is always toward revolt against authority. One such camel will sometimes break up the discipline of a whole train, for, owing to the mass mentality of the herd, even peaceful beasts are suddenly infected with the spirit of revolt and in a few minutes the whole caravan is in utter disorder.

  Mildred Cable

  Discipline, Leader, Peaceful

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• You can become anything you want to be ... It's a matter of authority. Whatever a man's confidence, that's his capacity.

  Marijane Meaker

  Confidence, Men, Matter

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• We have been deceived into believing prayer is all about persuading God to release His power. We no longer need to beg or plead; we need to exercise the authority He has given us and receive His blessings.

  Andrew Wommack

  Prayer, Believe, Exercise

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• Sportsmanship is that quality of honor that desires always to be courteous, fair, and respectful, and it is interpreted in the conduct of players, spectators, coaches, and school authorities.

  Fielding H. Yost

  School, Player, Honor

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• All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and to those persons over whom he exercises influence and authority.

  Herbert Simon

  Exercise, Actors, Action

  Herbert Alexander Simon (1947). “Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision-making Processes in Administrative Organization”

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• I really rebel against authority.

  Mariah Carey

  Rebel

  "Mariah Carey: 'I try not to be a jerk. I really do'" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009.

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• We [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world.

  Chuck Todd

  World, Moral, Moral Authority

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Some authorities believe that one prosperous thought is more powerful than a thousand failure thoughts; and that two prosperous attitudes steadily held and expressed are more powerful than ten thousand failure attitudes!

  Catherine Ponder

  Powerful, Attitude, Believe

  Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Men, Law

  "Address at the Unveiling of the Equestrian Statue of Bishop Francis Asbury, Washington, DC". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. October 15, 1924.

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• He who does the most good is the greatest man. Power, authority, dignity, honors, wealth and station--these are so far valuable as they put it into the hands of men to be more exemplary and more useful than they could be in an obscure and private life. But then these are means conducting to an end, and that end is goodness.

  John Jortin

  Mean, Men, Greatness

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• The opposite of thinking clearly is being muddled. To be conscious of being muddled is a horrible experience. To avoid it we may even be tempted to shut our minds and swallow a belief, ready-made, from some expert authority.

  Susan Stebbing

  Thinking, Opposites, Mind

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• Fish are not the best authority on water.

  Jane Yolen

  Ignorance, Water, Unawareness

  Jane Yolen (2016). “White Jenna”, p.178, Open Road Media

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• If someone was to tally the number of human hours wasted in business by people trying to accomplish objectives without being given the authority to do so, we would all be appalled.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Numbers, People, Trying

  Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

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• Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.

  Rob Payne

  People, Permission, Platitudes

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

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• Mouths talk without authority sometimes.

  Caroline Pafford Miller

  Talking, Mouths, Sometimes

  Caroline Pafford Miller (1993). “Lamb in His Bosom”, Peachtree Pub Limited

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• So the dream is continually reminding us of the part which our conscious is forgetting. It does not speak with any absolute authority; it simply gives a true picture of a situation which exists in the unconscious. It speaks truth; but not, as some persons believe, the truth. It shows the other side.

  Frances G. Wickes

  Dream, Believe, Giving

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