Quotes with privilege-controlled

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  • Antonio Villaraigosa The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.
    Antonio Villaraigosa
    American politician (1953 - )
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  • Bruce Lipton The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It's an idea that turns us into victims. I'm saying we are the creators of our situation. The genes are merely the blueprints. We are the contractors, and we can adjust those blueprints. And we can even rewrite them.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Wyndham Lewis The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Sir Arthur Helps The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Salman Rushdie The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Joseph Campbell The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Thomas Hobbes The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Bernardo Houssay The production and consumption of glucose, and hence, the blood sugar level, are controlled by a functional endocrine equilibrium.
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  • Matthew Arnold The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Voltaire Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Bertrand Russell Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Adam Arkin To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Heraclitus To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Oscar Wilde To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Calvin Coolidge To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Plato To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Noam Chomsky Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • James Russell Lowell What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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