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Gloria Steinem:
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

 

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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

 

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Men in authority will always think

 

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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.

 

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The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

 

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How a minority,
Reaching majority,
Seizing authority,
Hates a minority!

 

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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

 

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Mark Twain:
In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

 

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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

 

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What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

 

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Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

 

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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

 

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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

 

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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.


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October is a symphony of permanence and change.

 

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Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so

 

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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

 

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If we could see the miracle of a single

 

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When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.

 

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Bohm:
Indeed, to some extent it has always been necessary and proper for man, in his thinking, to divide things up, if we tried to deal with the whole of reality at once, we would be swamped. However when this mode of thought is applied more broadly to man's notion of himself and the whole world in which he lives, (i.e. in his world-view) then man ceases to regard the resultant