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• I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

  Shirley Manson

  Weather, Mood, Contradictory

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• I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.

  Charlie Peacock

  Lying, Political, Politics

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• A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

  E. M. Forster

  Artist, Creative, Criticism

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• You know, in this business, you don't have any control over what the press says and how they portray things. And that's their prerogative. But I think anybody who looks at it objectively has trouble making the case that somehow this is a bad economy.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Looks, Trouble

  Interview With Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2004.

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• First of all, in principle, I'm against physician-assisted suicide, and secondly, I believe it is the prerogative of the federal government to control drug rules. And the idea of using a controlled substance to end somebody's life is something I don't agree with. I can see the idea of using controlled substances to ease somebody's pain. That makes sense.

  George W. Bush

  Suicide, Pain, Believe

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• If two people want to get married, it’s their prerogative - we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want to do and be in the pursuit of happiness.

  Mariah Carey

  Gay, Pursuit Of Happiness, Two

  "Mariah, Unwrapped". Interview with Brandon Voss, www.advocate.com. December 13, 2010.

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• My God loves everybody, and if yours doesn't, that's your prerogative, but don't tell me how to live my life and don't tell my best friends that you're going to take away their rights. Because I will march you into the ground. I will argue you into the ground. I will petition you into the ground. I will not sleep, I will not stop, and neither will so many people in this country and in this world. It's not right.

  Sophia Bush

  Country, Sleep, Gay

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• The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Opportunity, Government, Creating

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• Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Preparation, Defense, Sovereign

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) (1943). “Development of United States Foreign Policy: Addresses and Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt Compiled from Official Sources, Intended to Present the Chronological Development of the Foreign Policy of the United States from the Announcement of the Good Neighbor Policy in 1933, Including the War Declarations”

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• If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s their prerogative? But there?s no excuse for political activism masquerading as science.

  Bill Vaughan

  Drinking, Political, Abuse

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• As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mind, Body, Gout

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.132

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• The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Errors, Wisest Man

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.61

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• By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Passion, Swings, Giving

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.88

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• As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may wore properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame.

  Laurence Sterne

  Leaving, Genius, Letters

  Laurence Sterne (1783). “The Works of Laurence Sterne”, p.101

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• If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works, he not only loses that special prerogative which marks him off from a cow in a pasture, but what is worse, he loses all capacity for determining any work. This is the beginning of a slavery which sometimes goes by the name of security.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Determination, Men

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• I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam's scheme of things. "The thing is," I said finally, "he won the Nobel Prize." "Well," she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, "I'm not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat."

  Alan Bennett

  Beautiful, Mother, Land

  "Writing Home". Book by Alan Bennett, 1994.

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• We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking is research, and all research is native, original, with him who carries it on, even if everybody else in the world already is sure of what he is still looking for.

  John Dewey

  Thinking, Peculiar, Research

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the 'luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and the ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would have been considered in Britain a middle-class standard of life.

  Anthony Crosland

  Class, Two, Luxury

  "The Future of Socialism". Book by Anthony Crosland, 1956.

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• Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Brother, Men, Speech

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Poems of King Alfred”, p.80

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• I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Fire, Challenges, Trying

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 213), 1975.

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• The U.S. has become a defacto one-party state, with the legislative branch permanently controlled by an incumbent's party and every president exploiting his role as Commander-in-Chief to expand on the imperial prerogatives of his office.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Party, Office, President

  "The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism". Book by Andrew Bacevich, 2008.

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• In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under this designation, measures to protect national cultural industries, for example, have been ruled unacceptable infringements of "free trade."

  Herbert Schiller

  Example, Infringement, Rejected

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Effort, Resistance

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.204, Knopf

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• All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it's a director's prerogative and you gotta go with it.

  Bruce Willis

  Couple, Cameras, Directors

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• As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Taste, Mathematics, Natural

  James Joseph Sylvester (1870). “The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations, Together with an Annotated Reprint of the Inaugural Presidential Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association at Exeter”, p.119

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