“ The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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“ Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival. ”
- Dean William R. Inge- Copy
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“ The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world? ”
- Edgar Quinet- Copy
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“ Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman. ”
- Mike Rounds- Copy
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“ Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases. ”
- Milton Berle- Copy
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“ Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. ”
- Tennessee Williams- Copy
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“ Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university. ”
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin- Copy
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“ The Catholic universities should be more Catholic than what most of them are. ”
- Tom Monaghan- Copy
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“ Just because the hospital is in-network doesn't mean the doctors are. This can mean a savings of $20,000 to $30,000. ”
- Nora Johnson- Copy
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“ Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. ”
- Mae West- Copy
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“ Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. ”
- Robert K. Merton- Copy
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“ Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution? ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? ”
- Groucho Marx- Copy
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“ In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race — the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be, and remain, slaves of minorities… ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Institutions — government, churches, industries, and the like — have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
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“ The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails — aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions. ”
- C. Wright Mills- Copy
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“ Would that this institution-or some institution-could become the University of Utopia. What will it be like? It will be the most enlightened institution of higher learning in the world today. Its only purpose is to educate. What a radically novel idea for an institution of higher learning! ”
- Charles McCurdy Jr.- Copy
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“ He took over a program that was going through a lot of problems and he's trying to get it turned around,... This would be a big step for him. (A win) would show they are headed in the right direction... That's a big job he's got, following Bear Bryant at the University of Alabama, 83,000 people… ”
- Don Shula- Copy
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“ The collective matrix of a science at a given time is determined by a kind of establishment, which includes universities, learned societies, and, more recently, the editorial offices of technical journals. Like other establishments, they are consciously or unconsciously bent on preserving the status quo - partly because unorthodox innovations are a threat to their authority, but also because of the deeper fear that their laboriously erected an intellectual edifice might collapse under the impact. ”
- Arthur Koestler- Copy
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“ All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
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“ An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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