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The capacity to influence radical groups can diminish significantly once they are viewed as indispensable coalition partners and are able to intimidate the electorate with the authority of the state behind them.
Tzipi Livni
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Former Minister Of Justice Of Israel
Authority
Diminish
Electorate
Groups
Indispensable
Partners
Coalition
Intimidate
Viewed
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For 50 years - that is, for most of my adult life - I worked tirelessly for the two-state solution in the face of countless frustrations, both on the part of the Israeli governments and the Palestinian Authority.
A. B. Yehoshua
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Novelist
Authority
Israeli
Palestinian
Adult
Adult Life
Countless
Frustrations
Governments
Solution
Tirelessly
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But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.
Kevin Kelly
/
Editor
Authority
Environment
Institute
Literature
Manage
Routes
Top Down
Trying
Bottom-Up
Central
Widespread
Turbulent
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If you don't like the word 'religion,' you can replace it with 'ideology' - it's largely the same thing. At the heart of both religion and ideology is the question of authority and where authority is coming from.
Yuval Noah Harari
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Religion
Authority
Heart
Ideology
Both
Same
Coming
Word
Largely
Question
Replace
Same Thing
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I had a lot of notes and fragments and observations that never amounted to anything. After the Wall had gone down, so many people were writing about Berlin, I didn't have the same urgency or feel enough authority.
Darryl Pinckney
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Novelist
Authority
Berlin
Fragments
Notes
Urgency
Enough People Feel
People Feel Enough
Observations
So Many People
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A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.
Stanley Milgram
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Psychologist
Authority
Long
People
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Governments usually end not with a bang but with a whimper, as the Conservatives learned in the 1990s. Support and authority erodes over time until there is a final collapse of support and pivotal electoral shift.
John Mcdonnell
/
Authority
Collapse
Pivotal
Bang
Conservatives
Electoral
Final
Governments
Shift
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Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.” “Sir?” “It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.” “Sir?” “That’s practically zen.
Terry Pratchett
/
Author
Authority
Streaks
Used
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My job is to enforce the laws as passed by whom? Congress. They give me my authority. That's the jurisdictional responsibilities that I have, and when litigation is used to regulate... that's abusive. That's wrong.
Scott Pruitt
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Attorney General Of Oklahoma
Authority
Give Me
Enforce
Litigation
Passed
Regulate
Responsibilities
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.
Mikhail Bakunin
/
Authority
Honesty
Individual
Infallible
May
Sincerity
Special
Absolute
Questions
Consequently
Recognize
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Essentially, it is the director who is the creative head of a film. The final authority on all decisions lies with the director. That is how it should be. And then other team members can give their creative inputs.
Aamir Khan
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Film Actor
Authority
Creative
Film
Input
Members
Team
Decisions
Director
Essentially
Head
Lies
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I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.
Lorne Michaels
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Television Producer
Authority
Comedy
Healthy
Hostility
Polite
Questioning
Regard
Reverence
Thinking
Way
Canadians
Challenged
Ways
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Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
Erich Fromm
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Psychologist
Authority
Interpersonal
Looks
Relation
Physical
Qualities
Superior
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Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
Erich Fromm
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Psychologist
Quality
Authority
Looks
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The Holy Ghost bears witness to us of the truth and impresses upon our souls the reality of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, so surely that no earthly power or authority can separate us from that knowledge.
James E. Faust
/
Lawyer
Authority
Bears
Christ
Ghost
Holy
Holy Ghost
Jesus Christ
Witness
God Truth Power
God Truth Knowledge
Earthly
Souls
Surely
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The attorney general of New York state has a special authority and responsibility to preserve the integrity of businesses and nonprofits in New York under the state's own laws as well as under the U.S. Constitution.
Zephyr Teachout
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Law Professor
Attorney
Authority
New York State
Attorney General
Preserve
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Black girls are punished, many times violently so, for questioning and challenging authority, which is something that is often celebrated and encouraged as a sign of intelligence and critical thinking in white boys.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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Authority
Critical
Critical Thinking
Questioning
Boy
Celebrated
Encouraged
Punished
Sign
Violently
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The federal government must retreat from its hyperactive involvement in areas traditionally under states' authority and refuse future temptations to regulate and legislate on every issue that happens to come to mind.
Scott Pruitt
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Attorney General Of Oklahoma
Authority
Federal Government
Involvement
Retreat
Legislate
Regulate
Temptations
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The first credible humans-to-Mars plans are starting to weave together in public-private partnerships. In fact, I can say with some authority that this will also be the case in terms of the Moon and asteroids as well.
Rick Tumlinson
/
Authority
Credible
Moon
Plans
Weave
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In 1992, I was an official of the Angolan regime. I was appointed by that country to oversee the organization of the raw diamond market and responsible for the governmental authority that later controlled this market.
Arcadi Gaydamak
/
Authority
Controlled
Diamond
Organization
Appointed
Official
Oversee
Raw
Regime
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The fact that natural-law theorists derive from the very nature of man a fixed structure of law independent of time and place, or of habit or authority or group norms, makes that law a mighty force for radical change.
Murray Rothbard
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Economist
Authority
Fixed
Force
Habit
Independent
Radical
Radical Change
Structure
Derive
Group
Nature Change Time
Mighty
Norms
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The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the authority to regulate interstate commerce, and the ENCRYPT Act sends a clear message that the complicated issues with encryption must be addressed thoughtfully and nationally.
Ted Lieu
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United States Representative
Authority
Commerce
Encryption
Grants
Interstate
Clear Message
Regulate
Sends
Thoughtfully
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I'm not really good with authority, but you know, when the doctors said that I won't be playing professional tennis again , it was another, sort of another thing in my life where I'm going to prove someone else wrong.
Mark Philippoussis
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Tennis Player
Authority
Life Good My Life
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They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.
Daryl Gates
/
Police
Authority
Circumstances
Reputation
Freedom From
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I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man.
Nick Cave
/
Musician
Men
Authority
Concerned
Mind
Standing
Writing
Men Man Look
Criticized
Minds
Standing Up
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The Supreme Court of the United States is hereby commanded to try Andrew Johnson for usurpation of our Imperial authority and prerogatives, and if found guilty, behead him or send him here to black the Emperor's boots.
Joshua A. Norton
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Andrew
Authority
Boots
Court
Emperor
Guilty
Johnson
Supreme
Supreme Court
Usurpation
Hereby
Imperial
Send
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Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.
Allen Boyd
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Former United States Representative
Encouraging
Authority
Congress
Diplomacy
Needed
Peaceful
Protect
Arrive
Negotiations
Solution
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Know your career values: Not your parents' values, not your friends', but what you personally value in work. For me, it's things like moving quickly and scrappily, ownership and authority over my work, and flexibility.
Kathryn Minshew
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Authority
Flexibility
Ownership
Work Your Me
Work Value Me
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In 2006, the Congress had approved plans to allow the Fed, beginning in 2011, to pay interest on banks' reserve balances. In the fall of 2008, the Congress moved up the effective date of this authority to October 2008.
Janet Yellen
/
Economist
Approved
Authority
October
Plans
Balances
Banks
Date
Effective
Fed
Reserve
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It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Ted Cruz
/
United States Senator
Authority
Clinton
Common
Common Ground
Creating
Foreign Policy
Left
Palestinian
Policy
Remarkable
Uniting
Obama
Ground
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If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.
George Bernard Shaw
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Playwright
Authority
Believe
Demand
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But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.
Vince Mcmahon
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Professional Wrestling Promoter
Authority
Delegation
Different Ways
Organization
Responsibility
Wwe
Grown
So Many Different Ways
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
Barbara Olson
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Lawyer
Ability
Attention
Authority
Influence
Pardon
Perks
Presidential
Significance
Special
Himself
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I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.
Jon Postel
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Computer Scientist
Space
Authority
Conventions
Coordinator
Domain
Essentials
Names
Protocol
Administer
Assigned
Central
Essential
Operation
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As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion.
Pankaj Mishra
/
Essayist
Authority
Conventional
Dalai
Lama
Renunciation
Self Interest
Significant
Six
Spiritual
Politics Religion People
Credited
Dalai Lama
Million
Million People
National
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Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
Allan Bloom
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Philosopher
Music
Authority
Children
Entertainment
Entertainment Industry
Silver
Silver Platter
Wait
Later
Platter
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The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.
Gary Wolf
/
Leadership
Analysis
Authority
Busy
Buzz
Cliche
Empowered
Familiar
Grass
Rhetorical
Roots
Theory
Ceaseless
Decentralized
Grass Roots
Intersection
Vehicles
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Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is anti-human and intolerable in the deepest sense
Noam Chomsky
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Linguist
Men
Authority
Wealth
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With foreign officials come foreign merchants, and with foreign merchants come foreign soldiers. They will usurp our authority and influence to begin with, and in the course of time, our guests will have become our hosts.
Zhang Zhidong
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Authority
Guests
Merchants
Officials
Hosts
Soldiers
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So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.
Charles Hodge
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Author
Authority
Canon
Clergy
Constitution
Matter
People
Rules
Actively
Assent
Cooperate
Matters
Forming
Merely
Passively
Procedure
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Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.
Michael Polanyi
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Economic Consultant
Men
Authority
Body
Doe
Members
Process
Profession
Admittedly
Controls
Lay
Scientific
Trained
Thereby
Uphold
Young Men
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Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
Andrew Johnson
/
17Th U.s. President
Government
Legal
Authority
Citizens
Constitution
Giving
Limits
Political
Subjects
Broad
Functions
Gives
Instrument
Outside
Principle
Private
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It is a historical fact that President Bush pushed this nation into a war that had little to do with apprehending terrorists. We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush because, as an executive, he had his authority.
Sheila Jackson Lee
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U.s. Representative
Authority
Historical
Impeachment
President Bush
Bush
Executive
Historical Fact
Seek
Terrorists
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The method of authority will always govern the mass of mankind; and those who wield the various forms of organized force in the state will never be convinced that dangerous reasoning ought not to be suppressed in some way.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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Philosopher
Authority
States
Way
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What I believe about the young age of the earth comes out of taking the Bible as written. And I've said numerous times over the years that the age of the earth, for example, is not a salvation issue but an authority issue.
Ken Ham
/
Authority
Bible
Salvation
Young Age
Age Believe I Believe
For Example
Numerous
Numerous Times
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I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.
Chris Carter
/
Baseball Player
Men
Authority
Children
Dose
Hero
Journalism
Skepticism
Watergate
Heroes
Good Men Movies
Favorite
Degree
Favorite Movies
Gave
Woodward
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You cannot have more than one leader worldwide. So, you would only have one Caliph for all of the Muslim world, so whoever that is, he would have authority over all of the Muslim land and wherever the Sharia is implemented.
Anjem Choudary
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Social Activist
Authority
Leader
World
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In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.
Robert Dale Owen
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American Politician
Authority
Fate
Frank
Public Safety
Safety
Speech
Threatened
Men Man May
Above
Hang
Owe
Shall
Single Act
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Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.
Dmitry Medvedev
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Prime Minister Of Russia
Authority
Citizens
Democracy
Emphasis
Rejecting
Vote
Voting
Democracy Political People
Final
Whom
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I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
Barney Frank
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Former U.s. Representative
Authority
Children
Dislike
Misuse
People
Thinking
Adult
Absolute
Physically
Gap
Impose
Relations
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