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• Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.

  Pope Pius XII

  Teaching, Atheism, Church

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• It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of their fathers and of their priests: authority, confidence, submission and custom with them take the place of conviction or of proofs: they prostrate themselves and pray, because their fathers taught them to prostrate themselves and pray: but why did their fathers fall on their knees?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Father, Fall, Atheism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.8, Booklassic

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• At the beginning of this year also, I called upon the North Korean side to open dialog between the responsible authorities of the South and the North at any place, at any time, and at any level, in order to prevent a recurrence of war and to cooperate to speed up the peaceful unification of our fatherland. However, no sincere response has yet been made by North Korea.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Usa, Order

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

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• Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Character, Atheism

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.365, Vintage

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• I will never cede the authority of our country or our security to any other nation. I'll never give a veto over American security to any other entity - not a nation, not a country, not an institution.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Giving, Institutions

  "Text Of Bush-Kerry Debate II (5)" by Jarrett Murphy, www.cbsnews.com. October 8, 2004.

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• True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.

  Stephen Covey

  Organization, Choices, Principles

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

  Stephen Covey

  Moral, Management, Given

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin or in English; and, secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and, consequently, its observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Latin, Believe, Superstitions

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• When it can be proved that the observance of Christmas, Whitsuntide, and other Popish festivals was ever instituted by a divine statute, we also will attend to them, but not till then. It is as much our duty to reject the traditions of men, as to observe the ordinances of the Lord. We ask concerning every rite and rubric, "Is this a law of the God of Jacob?" and if it be not clearly so, it is of no authority with us, who walk in Christian liberty.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Law

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms”, p.350, Kregel Academic

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• Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Successful, Self, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.99, Penguin

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• I've always believed that everything that is said from authority is either the authority of one's own heart, one's own brain, one's own reading, one's own trust, but not the authority of someone who claims it because they're speaking for God and they know the truth because it's written in a book. That, essentially, is where I come from. In a sense, tolerance is my religion. Reason is my religion.

  Stephen Fry

  Book, Reading, Heart

  "I saw hate in a graveyard - Stephen Fry". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2005.

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• A Godly leader ... finds strength by realizing his weakness
  finds authority by being under authority
  finds direction by laying down his plans
  finds vision by seeing the needs of others
  finds credibility by being an example
  finds loyalty by expressing compassion
  finds honor by being faithful
  finds greatness by being a servant

  Roy Lessin

  Loyalty, Godly, Compassion

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• You have the freedom, ability and authority to love your life.  Just be you, then wait.

  Gangaji

  Love You, Waiting, Ability

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• Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience-that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible-that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Errors, Giving

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.999, Penguin

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• When you’re not fully trusting in the Lord you’re concerned mostly about rescue. “I’m a Christian, get me out of here!” And the Lord is saying, “You’re kidding, right? I want to teach you who you are in this situation!” In some of our situations, He gives us power and authority to move. In other situations He gives us patience because that works just as powerfully, it’s just going to take a few extra weeks.

  Graham Cooke

  Christian, Moving, Giving

  FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Feb 22, 2015

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• If you are a czar or a king or a president or someone that wants to control those below them you do not want people to have a consciousness of life, of their needs. Because people do not make good slaves when they're connected to life... That's why in the public schools the primary objective is obedience to authority.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Kings, School, People

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• The essential thought must ever be that a man does not, except in his spiritual infancy, accept a statement merely because the Church or someone in authority declares it correct, but because, under mature examination, it is found to be true and right and worthwhile.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Spiritual, Men, Church

  John Andreas Widtsoe (1938). “Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no difference if this idea is that the world is round or that women should vote or that the workers should control industry.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Ideas, Differences, World

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• The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Watches, Safe, Conservative

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Postscript: Why I Am Not a Conservative, 1960.

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• The Word of truth teaches in the clearest and most positive terms that all of the dead will be raised. No doctrine of the faith rests upon a more literal and emphatic body of Scripture authority than this, nor is any more vital to Christianity.

  C. I. Scofield

  Doctrine, Body, Scripture

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• In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph of error. In the republic of the sciences sedition and even anarchy are beneficial in the long run to the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Running, Philosophy, Errors

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Question everyone in authority, and see that you get sensible answers to your questions ... questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence. Vow as much love to your country as you like ... but, I implore you, do not forget to question.

  Winifred Holtby

  Country, Mean, Patriotism

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• I write because I have authority from life to do so.

  Bessie Head

  Writing

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• If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.

  Alva Myrdal

  Race, Police, Insane

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• Oh, from what heights of blessing it is possible for a man to fall! To what depths of sin a man can descend, even with all that spiritual background! The higher the pinnacle of blessing, authority, and publicity he has attained by grace, the deeper and more staggering can be his collapse. There is never a day in any man's life but that he is dependent upon the grace of God for power and the blood of Jesus for cleansing.

  Alan Redpath

  Spiritual, Jesus, Fall

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