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abdicate
«I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.»
«Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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«A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.»
Author: Marlene Dietrich
(Actress)
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Competence,
Family
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«Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
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Politicians,
Politics
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«Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.»
Author: Martin Buber
(Interpreter, Philosopher, Translator)
| About:
Power
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«The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
God,
Men
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«A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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