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The Authority
«In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
humble, reasoning, The Authority
«Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.»
Author: Mikhail Bakunin
(Philosopher)
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boot, boots, boot maker, defer, deferred, deferring, defers, maker, perish, reject, The Authority, the matter
«Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Belief
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accept, after, agreeing, agrees, analysis, anything, authority, been, believe in, benefit, Best Book, booked, books, Books not, Book One, book up, by hand, conducive, down, downed, Down in It, Down Under, Down With Me, elders, find, found, founds, generations, good, good and, good authority, Good Living, handed-down, handed, handing, handing over, hands down, hand down, hand out, hand to hand, heard, hear out, it accepts, live, live up to, many, merely, observation, One Good Reason, on hand, on one hand, on the books, On Writing, out of hand, reason, religious, rumored, simply, speaking in, speaks in, speak up, spoken, take down, teachers, then, they, The Authority, To be written, to it, Traditions, up to, with reason, write of, write out, written
«It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
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constrain, constraining, constrains, experiment, scriptures, The Authority, vexes, vexing
«Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.»
«How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Discrimination
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acknowledged, discrimination, legally, morally, obliged, operate, parliament, parliaments, racial, racial discrimination, represented, The Authority, trial, universally
«In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
| About:
War
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first cause, intention, Just Cause, Just War, rightful, secondly, sovereign, sovereigns, The Authority, thirdly
«I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.»
Author: William F. Buckley, Jr.
(Writer)
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ancestors, arrived, booth, booths, obedient, subservient, The Authority, voting, voting booth
«MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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adjective, adjectives, Bedlam, Bethlehem, Bethlehem To, boast, Britain, government officials, government of the United, government of the United States, Great Britain, inhabitant, justly, Luke, Mary, maudlin, mentioned, official, penitent, popularly, pronounced, sanction, sentimental, St Luke, The Authority, unpleasantly, whence
«I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Catholicism,
Church
| Keywords:
Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholic churches, gospel, Move Me, The Authority, The Catholic