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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
Abu Bakr
Truth
Best
Me
You
Given
Wrong
Over
Sincere
Well
Am
Been
Authority
Regard
Help
Right
Set
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein
Ethics
Believe
Consider
Immortality
Superhuman
Individual
Concern
Authority
Behind
Human
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Behan
Book
Like
Infantryman
Article
Authority
Hands
Quotation
Speaks
Rifle
Speech
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
Federico Fellini
Eyes
Cinema
Lost
Our
Once
Possesses
Dream
Charisma
Dreamt
Charm
Habit
Hypnotic
Open
Disappeared
Longer
Because
Authority
Public
Us
Held
Image
The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.
Gary Hamel
Power
Employees
Cold
Tyrannical
Only
Blanket
Employee
Most
Policy
Policy Decisions
Real
Authority
Egocentric
Disenfranchised
Lack
Against
Decisions
Centralized
CEO
Engagement
Companies
Rebel
Even
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it - but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.
George Washington
Man
Will
Living
Say
See
Abolition
Proper
Adopted
More
Only
Shall
Never
Sincerely
Wishes
Go
Accomplished
Effectual
Mode
Than
Authority
Legislative
As Far As
Wanting
Which
Plan
Far
Who
Suffrage
Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.
Greg Graffin
Science
Progress
Punk
First
Building
Before
Down
Structure
Advance
Make
Because
Without
Authority
Tearing
Expression
Challenging
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Ignazio Silone
Saying
Mistake
Liberty
Political
Doubting
Philosophic
Possibility
Religious
Making
Authority
Any
Artistic
Literary
Experimenting
Social
Even
Searching
I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Me
Speak
Result
Mother
Language
Consider
Bengali
Paradoxically
Perceived
Write
Perfectly
Between
Know
Accent
Read
Without
Mother Tongue
Always
How
Foreign
Foreign Language
Authority
Even
Tongue
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Those
Obstacle
Learn
Authority
Often
Want
Teach
Who
The world doesn't understand the system here. The authority of the people. You don't understand it.
Muammar al-Gaddafi
You
People
World
System
Understand
Authority
Here
As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not.
Rodrigo Duterte
Legal
Lawyer
Power
President
Prosecutor
Know
Limits
Authority
Former
Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.
Simon Sinek
Best
Good
Leader
Separation
Best Friend
Good Parent
Some
Parent
Like
Also
His
Friend
Child
Authority
Requires
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Huxley
Great
Knowledge
Natural
Every
Rejection
Absolute
Advance
Involved
Authority
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire
Thoughts
Injustice
Thought
Men
Only
Conceal
Employ
Authority
Use
Speech
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
Richard Dawkins
Work
Faith
Will
Evidence
Out
Atheists
Understand
Revelation
Opposed
Tradition
Authority
Children
Automatically
Work Out
Themselves
Should
Beliefs
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet
Wisdom
Edge
Bruise
Like
Polish
Without
Fitter
Than
Authority
Heavy
Ax
I can tell you with authority that when I'm exhausted, when I'm running on empty, I'm the worst version of myself.
Arianna Huffington
Myself
You
Exhausted
Worst
Tell
Running
Empty
Version
Authority
Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.
Bernie Siegel
Change
Words
Parents
Become
Patient
Physicians
Hypnotic
Sharing
Clergy
Always
Am
Hear
Cure
Child
Authority
Either
Teachers
Figure
Lives
Swords
We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
Bret Stephens
World
Live
Way
Data
Hubris
Begets
Authority
Which
Convey
Certitude
Descending
Oprah is a wealthy person, pack leader of the human world. So many see her as the dominant one, as the authority figure. The way I view her energy, seeing her on TV, is a very calm, quiet energy. You need, in order to gain control, higher energy than your dog.
Cesar Millan
You
Dog
World
Leader
Calm
Control
Energy
Way
TV
Wealthy
See
Seeing
Higher
Oprah
Dominant
Very
Than
Quiet
Person
Authority
Human
Order
Gain
Pack
View
Your
Figure
Many
Her
Need
Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.
David A. Bednar
Education
Experience
Men
Priesthood
Worthiness
Willingness
Given
Qualifications
Authority
Ordinary
Expertise
Ordinary Men
Ordination
The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
Dick Cavett
Depression
Good
Feel Good
Thought
Horrifying
Could
Never
Feel
Like
Heal
Felt
Brain
Authority
Again
Gonna
Really
Busted
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
Democracy
Vote
People
Voting
Political
Final
Our
Citizens
Able
More
Only
Emphasis
Force
Person
Authority
Decide
Place
Who
Whom
Rejecting
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
Euripides
Faces
More
New
New Faces
Than
Authority
Accustomed
The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.
Gelsey Kirkland
Service
Theatre
Light
Stress
Pressure
Moral Authority
Starvation
Punctuality
Moral
Stay
Physical
Only
Voices
Excess
Poisoning
Taken
Performance
Demanded
Occasional
Within
Were
Continuing
Norm
Lip
Lip Service
Authority
Moderation
Meaningless
Paid
Measures
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