#institution

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts. ↗

— Keith Preston

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And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust. ↗

— Simon Raven

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Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces. ↗

— Don Sherwood

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They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened. ↗

— Lorenzo Snow

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We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed to craft the best practices to distribute throughout the country. And we had to do all of that in ten months. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#behalf #best #country #craft #depend

To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states. ↗

— George Soros

#because #create #democracy #democratic #governments

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#been #carried #civil #considerable #founded

At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy. ↗

— John Hutton

#civil #civil society #economy #effectiveness #european