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• As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

  Robert Teeter

  Influence, Individual, Lost

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• As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.

  Jo Ann Davis

  Running, Reform, Addresses

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• I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

  Richard Ernst

  Teaching, Research, Management

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• I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

  Henry R. Luce

  Want, Journalism, Tradition

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• Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

  Tatyana Ali

  Democracies Have, America, Democracy

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• We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Encouragement, Community, Mechanic

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.154

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• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, People, Constitution Of The United States

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Trying, Dignity

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.

  William James

  Success, Peace, Honesty

  "Pete Seeger’s Last War" by David Hajdu, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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• International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples

  Henri La Fontaine

  Country, Hymns, Shepherds

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• Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

  Judith M Bardwick

  School, Taught, Conformity

  Judith M. Bardwick (1972). “Readings on the psychology of women”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works.

  Margot Kidder

  Sweet, War, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

  Walter Bagehot

  House, Looks, Fierce

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The House of Lords'

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• Here is also to be noted, that the cause of the institution was to be a memorial, to testify that Christ's body was given, and his blood shed for us.

  William Tyndale

  Blood, Memorial, Body

  William Tyndale, John Frith, Thomas Russell (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: The works of Tyndale, (continued:) An answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue ; An exposition upon the 5th, 6th, and 7th chapters of Matthew ; An exposition upon the 1st epistle of St. John ; A pathway into the Holy Scripture ; The sacrament of baptism, and the sacrament of the body and blood of our saviour Jesus Christ”, p.532

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• Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

  Jack Abbott

  School, Reform, Causes

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Integrity, Law, America

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• Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Umpires, People, Evil

  'Dèclaration des droits de l'homme' 24 April 1793, article 25

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• Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

  Harlan F. Stone

  Equality, People, Doctrine

  Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81, (100), 1943.

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• The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  Baseball, Games, Genius

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• Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.

  Robert Teeter

  Leadership, Together, Citizens

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• Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

  Mike Rounds

  Marriage, Men, Done

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• The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate.

  Max Baucus

  Unique, Hymns, Political

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• An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self Reliance, Shadow

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Names, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.262, Library of America

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• Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.

  George C. Marshall

  Country, Hunger Poverty, Political

  The Marshall Plan, delivered 5 June 1947 at Harvard University

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