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The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.


Robert Fortune


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The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.


Benjamin Tucker


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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.


David Viscott


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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.


Voltaire


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I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.


Jimmy Wales


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Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.


Paul Weyrich


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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.


Edith Wharton


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For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.


Theodore White


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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.


Walt Whitman


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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.


Oscar Wilde


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