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• Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

  Peter L. Berger

  Compare, Ifs

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• Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Facts, And Love, Study

  "Opera Star Andrea Bocelli: Faith Is the Only Way Forward". Interview with Mark Hensch, www.christianpost.com. November 28, 2011.

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• Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.

  Ron Fournier

  Two, Victory, Desire

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• It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

  David Mamet

  Government, Needs, Determine

  "David Mamet's nonsensical Newsweek argument against gun control" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2013.

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• It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Kings, Army, People

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• Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predicatable of calamities.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Falling In Love, Moving, Choices

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.52, A&C Black

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• Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

  John Dryden

  Forgiveness, Adventure, Law

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• The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no shade of color, no mere misfortune of circumstances, can annul that birthright charter, which God has bequeathed to every being upon whom he has stamped his own image, by making him a free moral agent, and that he who robs his fellow man of this tramples upon right, subverts justice, outrages humanity, unsettles the foundation of human safety, and sacrilegiously assumes the prerogative of God.

  Theodore Dwight Weld

  Men, Color, Law

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• Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilization, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every home, in every school.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Education, Children, Kindness

  "Just for Animals" quoted in "Souls Like Ourselves" by Andrea Wiebers and David Wiebers, Rochester, MN: Sojourn Press, (p. 16), 2000.

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• It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire

  John L. Dagg

  Mind, Desire, Dominion

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• Love ever gives-forgives-outlives and ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogative - to give and give and give.

  William Arthur Dunkerley

  Love, Hands, Giving

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• The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with all mankind. Our founding documents proclaim to the world that freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few. It is the universal right of all God's children.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Children, Independence

  Ronald Reagan (1998). “A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan”

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• We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Home, Bird, Sailing

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• Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives of older, slower literature and handmade visual art.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Photography, Art, Memories

  "Looking Back" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. March 21, 2005.

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• [Bob] Dylan may, for whatever reasons of his own, do nothing of the sort with the Nobel committee. Up there on Parnassus, that is his unquestionable prerogative. But here on my anthill, it's mine to say: oh, do piss off, you ineffable snobs.

  David Bennun

  May, Bob, Reason

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Trying, Moral

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2010). “The Old Regime and the French Revolution”, p.45, Anchor

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• If somebody don't like something that I do, that's his or her prerogative. Just like it's mine.

  Ray Charles

  Like Something, Mines, Ifs

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• On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Arrogance

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• Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Sole, Chosen

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1988). “Ronald Reagan”

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• To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

  Charles Lamb

  Sick, Enjoy

  Charles Lamb (1879). “The Last Essays of Elia”

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• Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.

  John Dryden

  Freedom, Land, Sole

  'Threnodia Augustalis' (1685) st. 10

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• Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Memories, World, Remember

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• But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.

  Charles Hodge

  Exercise, Men, Doe

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.52

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• Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Failure, Generosity, Degrees

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1855). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume”, p.53

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• Renunciation is everyone's prerogative.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Renunciation

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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