Quotes and Sayings About Institutions
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Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
-- Al Capp -
An institution has to decide, and it's not just an option, it's a responsibility, how much diversity can be tolerated.
-- Albert Mohler -
The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.
-- Alvin Toffler -
I'm forming a charitable institution for education.
-- Amar Bose -
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Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.
-- Andrew Eldritch -
Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind.
-- Andrew Jackson -
The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
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The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.
-- Arthur Henderson -
The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
-- Ashley MontaguSource : "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson",
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The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.
-- Atal Bihari VajpayeeSource : "A World Without Leadership: Ten Questions with Ian Bremmer (Part 1)". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com. May 6, 2012.
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The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth -
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..
-- Bell Hooks -
If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
-- Bernie Sanders -
The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.
-- Bernie Sanders -
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
-- Berthold Auerbach -
Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.
-- Bill Gross -
Well the Kop’s exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where you’ve got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And they’re united and loyal.
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Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct.
-- Boris SidisSource : "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 311), 1922.
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Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.
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Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
-- C. Northcote ParkinsonSource : Parkinson's Law ch. 6 (1957)
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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
-- Cal Thomas -
The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.
-- Charles Alexander Eastman -
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The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
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Trust has shifted from institutions to individuals.
-- Clara Shih -
We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.
-- Condoleezza Rice -
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
-- Daniel Webster -
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I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.
-- Darrell HammondSource : "Darrell Hammond Performed on 'SNL' Same Week He Was Taken From NBC in Straitjacket" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 26, 2011.
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Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.
-- Derek Bok