#legitimacy

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

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#composition #country #ethnic #feeling #granted

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

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#basic #beneficent #female #goddess #independent

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

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#certainly #i #kind #legitimacy #much