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• There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

  David Remnick

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• I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

  Darrell Hammond

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  Tags in Time, Institution

• Historically, royal families have represented an institution. The institution is built on heritage, and is timeless in that sense.

  Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark

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  Tags in Institution, Royal, Heritage

• I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God’s work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.

  Frank McCourt

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• I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That’s what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

  Frank McCourt

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  Tags in Institution, Idea, Nothing

• Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It’s the – the theater of the absurd. It doesn’t only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi’s Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam’s Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

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  Tags in Institution, Part

• The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

  Tom Stoppard

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  Tags in Kind, Different, Institution

• I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

  Frances Anne Kemble

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  Tags in Imperative, Institution

• Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

  James McGreevey

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  Tags in Institution, Sacred

• The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

  George Santayana

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• We have to withdraw from this undemocratic institution and ensure that these people no longer have any influence on British affairs. We would like to see other European nations do the same thing. I think that will happen.

  Steve Blake

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  Tags in Ensure, Institution

• We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other.

  Stephen Breyer

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• The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

  Christopher Lasch

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  Tags in Institution

• We eat animals because they taste good. And if that’s O.K., what’s wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

  Gary Lawrence Francione

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  Tags in Animals, Institution

• I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

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• We couldn’t be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That’s the main thing, they slow things down.

  Chester Brown

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  Tags in Behaviour, Stranger, Institution

• The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.

  Charles Eastman

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• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action – you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  Eli Stanley Jones

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• If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

  Abdurrahman Wahid

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  Tags in Islam, Institution, Defending

• We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.

  Eric Liu

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  Tags in Merit, Institution, Deserves