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«It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix.»
Author: Daniel S. Greenberg
| Keywords:
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«An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.»
Author: Henry Clay
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
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«But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.»
Author: Lysander Spooner
| About:
Constitution,
Government
| Keywords:
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«Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Courtesy,
Friendship,
Relationships,
Tact
| Keywords:
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«There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.»
Author: Sam Ervin
(Senator)
| About:
Action,
Constitution
| Keywords:
activities, authorize, authorized, authorizes, authorizing, criminal, official
«Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.»
Author: Sandra Day O'Conner
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
amendment, authorize, authorized, authorizes, authorizing, core, framer, Framers, searches, statutes, The Core, unreasonable
«So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
authorize, authorized, authorizes, authorizing, moreover, violation, violations
«I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers»
«BAPTISM, n. A sacred rite of such efficacy that he who finds himself in heaven without having undergone it will be unhappy forever. It is performed with water in two ways --by immersion, or plunging, and by aspersion, or sprinkling.But whether the plan of immersion Is better than simple aspersion Let those immersed And those aspersed Decide by the Authorized Version, And by matching their agues tertian. --G.J.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Sir,- I have duly received your favor of the 18th and am thankful to you for having written it, because it is more agreeable to prevent than to refuse what I do not think myself authorized to comply with»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
authorize, authorized, authorizes, authorizing, comply, complying, duly
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