Institutions Quotes

• Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases.

  Milton Berle

  Marriage, Men, Wife

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• Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed.

  Phil Donahue

  Stars, Special, Imagine

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 24, 2005.

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• To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

  Stephen Breyer

  Umpires, Justice, Liberty

  "Justice For Sale". "Journal" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. February 19, 2010.

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• France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

  Jacques Chirac

  Needs, France

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.

  Tim Holden

  Penn State, States, Higher Learning

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• Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

  Leland Stanford

  School, Law, Members

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Moon, Men, Looks

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• I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

  Amar Bose

  Charitable

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• A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.

  William Irwin Thompson

  World, Structure, Process

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• Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Mistake, Culture, Artificial

  William Irwin Thompson (2015). “Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition”, p.95, Andrews UK Limited

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• I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Thinking, Ideas, Great Idea

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• I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

  Thomas Cech

  Thinking, Leader, Research

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". Interview with Holger Breithaupt, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

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• Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.

  Peter Garrett

  Issues, Understanding, Research

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

  Cal Thomas

  Government, People, Function

  Cal Thomas, Wayne Stayskal (2001). “The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas”

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• Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.

  Abdurrahman Wahid

  Two, Islam, Important

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• You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

  David Horowitz

  Names, People, Mouths

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• I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

  Akhmad Kadyrov

  Love, Peace, Election

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• It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

  Douglas Hyde

  Way, Language, Shame

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• The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan.

  Mark Shields

  Moving, Community, Pakistan

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• As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters of most that's wrong with our present masters.

  Tom Metzger

  Islamic, Target, Masters

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• I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

  Margaret Spellings

  Thinking, Parent, Culture

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• When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.

  Drew Barrymore

  People, Perfect, Locked Up

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• As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Writing, Government, Long

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• Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

  Jacques Derrida

  Territory, Certain, Reader

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• No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Average, Needs

  Peter F. Drucker (2009). “Concept of the Corporation”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

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