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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
Joseph Addison / Essayist
Religion
Authority
Deny
Facts
Morality
Obvious
Religious
Secular
Supplies
Ground
Sanction
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Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
Ayn Rand / Novelist
Evil
Victim
Requires
Sanction
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No sanction can stand against ignited minds.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam /
Against
Stand
Minds
Sanction
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A company not under sanction is just like any other company, period.
Wilbur Ross / Investor
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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George Santayana / Philosopher
Happiness
Work
Character
Basis
Sanction
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Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.
Comte De Lautreamont /
Punishment
Reward
Sanction
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Walter Benjamin / Literary Critic
Authority
Borrowed
Sanction
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Giving public sanction to homosexual marriage ends up redefining marriage, and it's certain to harm children.
Ken Cuccinelli / Former Attorney General Of Virginia
Harm
Homosexual
Redefining
Sanction
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India has the sanction of her own past glory and future vision to become strong - in every sense of the term.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee / Former Prime Minister Of India
Glory
Sanction
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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana / Philosopher
Happiness
Existence
Joy
Laughter
Mad
Remains
Experiment
Fails
Sanction
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If a relationship does not promote a state's legitimate interests, there is no reason a state should sanction it.
Jesse Lee Peterson /
No Reason
Promote
Sanction
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Universal Credit claimants who refuse to accept a zero hours contract job offer, without good reason, can be subject to a sanction.
Esther Mcvey /
Contract
Good Reason
Sanction
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Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
Anita Brookner / Novelist
God
Religion
Society
Hero
Philosophical
Saint
Support
Sanction
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
Pankaj Mishra / Essayist
Altered
Dalai
Diverse
Lama
Claim
Dalai Lama
Sanction
Teachings
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All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin / Founding Father Of The United States
Liberty
Partnership
Serious
Thinking
Binds
Sanction
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You are always trying to please people before you get to the public whenever you do anything that requires a corporate body to sanction it.
Rita Rudner / Comedian
Corporate
Please
Requires
Sanction
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If China is doing business with a company that ends up putting money back into proliferation activities, then we'll sanction that company and China.
Cory Gardner /
China
Proliferation
Activities
Putting
Sanction
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But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
William Robertson Smith /
Religion
Ancient
Aquariums
Binding
Essentials
Mythology
Sacred
Essential
Strictly
Sanction
Speaking
Strictly Speaking
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Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
Andrea Dworkin / Writer
Class
Conviction
Discrimination
Distinction
Genocide
Political
Begins
Biological
Classes
Sanction
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Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.
Lysander Spooner / Philosopher
Legal
Giving
Law
Legislation
Slavery
Aid
Custom
Sanction
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Whoever pays should control; whoever pays should sanction. I agree. But budgetary union should be completed by a partial mutualisation of debts through eurobonds.
Francois Hollande / President Of France
Budgetary
Completed
Debts
Partial
Pays
Union
Sanction
Whoever
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How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.
Paul P. Harris / Attorney
Human Relationships
Strange
Relationships
Sanction
The Most Important
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If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.
Steve Coogan / Actor
War
Confused
Electric
Electric Guitar
Guitar
Rebellion
Worldview
Wars
Effectively
Sanction
Symbol
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Sheikh Rahman's fatwa was the first time that anyone associated with al Qaeda had given religious sanction to attacks on American aviation, shipping and economic targets.
Peter Bergen / Broadcaster
Aviation
Shipping
Al
Associated
Attacks
Qaeda
Sanction
Targets
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You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.
Dev Anand / Film Actor
Art
Film
Good Work
Outstanding
Sometimes
Work Business Art
No Business
Sanction
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When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.
Bobby Jindal / Governor Of Louisiana
Enforcement
Illegal
Individual
Law
Law Enforcement
Release
Breaking
Immigrant
No Sense
Officer
Penalty
Sanction
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There have always been different opinions on some elements of our sanction policy. It will probably stay that way... What is important is that we keep this unity and decide all together.
Federica Mogherini /
Different Opinions
Elements
Unity
Opinions
Sanction
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My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.
Jared Harris / Actor
Catholic
Children
Father
Mother
Sanction
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I think one of the keys to any crime-prevention program that's got to be developed is to focus on punishment - to let people know that there is a sanction and a punishment for hurting others.
Janet Reno / United States Attorney General
Focus
Program
Punishment
Developed
Hurting
Sanction
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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Edmund Burke / Statesman
Community
Force
Giving
Inclination
Law
Legislature
General
Direction
Effect
Follow
General Sense
Sanction
Specific
Technical
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The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
Bernadine Dohrn /
Patriotism
Comfortable
Compliance
Dissent
Gloss
Hush
Aspects
Fundamental
Ignore
Indecent
Sanction
Unacceptable
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Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor.
Meryl Streep / Actress
Curse
Designation
Valuable
Love Good Me
Opposite
Useful
Sanction
Working Actor
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Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as 'employee satisfaction results' - might improve.
Tom Hodgkinson / Writer
Employee
Management
Repose
Results
Satisfaction
Workers
All Day
Bosses
Nap
Expect
Refer
Sanction
Types
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The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.
Bobby Scott / U.s. Representative
Common
Country
Destiny
Hate
Linked
Permit
Race
Seeds
Destinies
Interests
Planted
Races
Require
Sanction
Shall
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We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah / Lawyer
Crime
Customs
Evil
House
Humanity
Shut Up
Wall
Women Are
Condition
Anywhere
Deplorable
Houses
Prisoners
Sanction
Shut
Victims
Walls
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As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.
David Brainerd / Missionary
Articles
Errors
Extravagant
Impunity
Infamous
Law
Practice
Vices
Among
Authorized
Established
Obtained
Received
Sanction
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Reasonable ideas which find their sanction in the conscience of the righteous do not die; they are consequently realities and active forces, but they are so only to the extent that those who profess them know how to turn them to account.
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta /
Active
Conscience
Righteous
Account
Consequently
Extent
Forces
Profess
Realities
Sanction
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The abolition of the double sanction for a foul in the box is a welcome change. There are times that you cannot help but stop your opponent in the box, with your momentum forcing you to make a challenge. Fouls can't be avoided in that situation but your intention was fair.
Philipp Lahm / Soccer Player
Abolition
Avoided
Foul
Intention
Momentum
Welcome
Double
Forcing
Opponent
Sanction
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I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own.
Guillermo Del Toro / Film Director
Humor
Boundaries
Comedy
Defined
Desire
Fantasy
Horror
Joy
Laughter
Melodrama
Monsters
Create
Films
Genres
Horror Films
Sanction
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We believe that unilateral sanctions violate international law, in fact. They violate free trade. They violate human growth and development, human development, and that when you actually sanction a bank of a country, the meaning of it is quite clear. You're sanctioning medicine for the people.
Hassan Rouhani / President Of Iran
Clear
Country
Development
Free Trade
Growth
Human Development
International
International Law
Law
Trade
Actually
Free
Quite
Bank
Fact
For The People
In Fact
Meaning
Meaning Of
Sanction
Unilateral
Violate
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In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council could sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other pretext or method which might be used to justify the use of force against an independent sovereign state are inadmissible and can only be interpreted as an aggression.
Vladimir Putin / President Of Russia
Aggression
Council
Independent
International
International Law
Justify
Method
Pretext
Security
Security Council
Sovereign
Sanction
Sovereign State
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What does a teacher do in a school? A teacher would tell you off or give you lines or whatever it is, detentions, but at the same times, they are wanting your best interests at heart. They are teaching you, they are educating you, but at the same time, they will also have the ability to sanction you.
Esther Mcvey /
Best Interests
Educating
Sanction
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We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it.
Michael Moore / Filmmaker
Death Penalty
Bin
Invade
Ok
Penalty
Sanction
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Of other countries, to impose economic sanctions, it'd really begin to dry up the enormous amount of money coming into North Korea, a lot of it from China - from Chinese banks - whereas, if we sanction the Chinese banks, there could be friction with China. But this is something we're going to have to face.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Amount
China
Dry
Economic
Enormous
Friction
North Korea
Other Countries
Begin
Banks
Coming
Countries
Impose
North
Sanction
Whereas
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