#authority

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

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No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

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The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

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I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

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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

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I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

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A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have the moral authority to enact the kind of fundamental reforms America has not seen since Ronald Reagan's first year. ↗

— Paul Ryan

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In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost. ↗

— Kim Y. Sam

#before #day #law #lost #now