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Authority Quotes
Quotes on leadership, responsibility, and holding authority.
Authority in these quotes tends to be practical rather than abstract, showing up as a treasurer's power to weigh in on spending decisions or a driver's role within a transit system. That grounded angle fits well with Government quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.
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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.
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America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
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There's something called, 'resolution authority,' which gives the government the power to takeover a failing bank - something they didn't have pre-Lehman Brothers.
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The story of rural India is a lack of empowerment: perceived impotence. Villagers are being constantly threatened by an authority. The Bolero symbolizes empowerment.
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A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
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Authority forgets a dying king.
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Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.
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