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When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do read more
When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth
There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
Thus can the demigod Authority
Make us pay down for our offense by weight
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Thus can the demigod Authority
Make us pay down for our offense by weight
The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will,
On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.
Shall remain!
Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you
His absolute 'shall'?
Shall remain!
Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you
His absolute 'shall'?
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
Merciful heaven,
Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt
Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak
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Merciful heaven,
Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt
Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak
Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man,
Dressed in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assured
His glassy essence--like an angry ape
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,
would all themselves laugh mortal.