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All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.

George Bernard Shaw

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

Benjamin Disraeli

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

Thomas Jefferson

If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Charles Darwin

On-off engagement with the IICD is no less discouraging than the UUP's on/off commitment to the political institutions.

Mark Durkan

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

George Carlin

We may be the only conference ? I'm sure we are the only conference ? in the country where the majority of institutions are being penalized by the NCAA.

Peter Nicholson

He thinks our world is too rushed, ... It's why marriages, friendships and institutions fail.

Ralph Wood

The international community knows how to organize elections. But it's not good at sticking around to build functioning democratic institutions.

Dan Erikson

KSU is in the third wave of institutions under new criteria. The change in accreditation criteria now requires that institutions complete a QEP.

Valerie Whittlesey

This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will replace them.

Martin Mayer

If you put too much aid too quickly into weak institutions, where there isn't capacity, you have corruption, and the programs don't work.

Andrew Natsios

The security institution is the only guarantee to prevent sedition and civil war. Civil war began in Somalia after the collapse of the army and security institutions.

Ala Hosni

The crux of this decision is that religious institutions are not above the law.

Irwin Zalkin

Hopefully, this gift will help propel these institutions into the future.

Linda Evans

All of these things are what foreign competitive institutions are good at and what Chinese institutions lack.

Stephen Green

The evidence indicates, ... that Enron would not have been able to engage in the extent of the accounting deceptions it did, involving billions of dollars, were it not for the active participation of major financial institutions willing to go along with and even expand upon Enron's activities.

Robert Roach

Some financial institutions believed Fukui would delay the action but the government can't stop him. It shocked some investors and they finally decided to cut their losses.

Xinyi Lu

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Thorstein Veblen

We cannot abandon these institutions, and we cannot abandon the city of New Orleans.

Michael Lomax

This even staggered us. Online institutions now have to assume that the account holder may have been compromised.

Alex Eckelberry

These global financial institutions see opportunity in United -- even in the midst of the ongoing brutally competitive industry environment.

Glenn Tilton

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

Harlan Stone

This could be because you can't have an effective anti-corruption strategy without democratic institutions. Administrative measures alone have not allowed China to reduce corruption to levels in Central and East European countries.

Mikhail Dmitriyev

Trust in established institutions and figures of authority - CEOs, heads of state - is being supplanted by a personal web of trust that includes colleagues, friends and family.

Richard Edelman

We take 'em from anywhere. But there are several institutions similar to us that play basketball.

Kevin Jenkins

Having four or five institutions drop out and then have two new ones step in is not necessarily the answer.

David Towne

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Walter Bagehot

Essentially it was a means to create enhanced service capability for financial institutions.

Dan Mcintyre

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

Al Spalding

We can use this capital as a springboard for making ourselves into global institutions.

Uday Kotak

Insider theft can be very easy. Institutions should exercise as much care in the hiring of staff as possible.

Mimi Bowling

We have built some 33 shelter schools and other institutions, and we have distributed books, bags and uniforms.

Ghulamullah Azad

[We would hope to have a decision] before summer holidays, ... European institutions tend to knock off the month of August.

Jonathan Todd

Most of our students come in with at least half their classes earned at other institutions.

Robert Silberman

There's a large number of U.S. institutions who only buy S&P 500 stocks.

Stephen Reitman

Up until now all the information is going in one direction to law enforcement. But the financial institutions get a lot of feedback and they honestly have a lot of impact in being able to choke the money flow.

Michelle Collins

Despite ballooning JGB issuance, Japanese financial institutions have ample appetite for JGB investment.

Kazuo Mizuno

We have decided together not to go that way, not to compete against each other because it divides the institutions and it divides the community.

Sarah Pappas

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

C. Northcote Parkinson

On my desk I have information from institutions that show there were more [than the 4m shares talked about by Mark Bristow].

Peter Gray

We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions ... These are ingredients for catastrophe.

Iyad Allawi

The University of Chicago and Harvard University have behaved admirably in difficult circumstances. We have had the full support of our respective institutions.

John Mearsheimer

These are classes that students have expressed interest in, not to us, but generically to their home schools and other institutions.

Donna Harris

We'll create institutions, we'll create accountability and transparency in dealing with the land that's going to be evacuated by the settlers.

Rafiq Husseini

We've got all these bits of information in different institutions.

Achim Steiner

What we need are financial institutions to finance the project, not a group of contractors that eventually ask for funds from other institutions.

Fauzi Bowo

If I were IBM, I'd understand it. I'm not IBM. I represent 14 educational institutions.

Mike Tranghese

Financial institutions and export and import enterprises have basically adapted to the flexibility of the exchange rate regime and show strong confidence in their future business.

Hu Xiaolian

It gives institutions and individual investors equal access to these markets for the first time.

Mike Crinieri

These artists didn't live in a vacuum. There was a lot more exchange between artists and institutions than we tend to believe.

Bob Cozzolino

Anytime you do something like this, you raise tensions in the institutions.

Jason Godin

Any area where institutions are not involved is great for individuals. When the institutions aren't involved, the price is less conditioned on market movements and more based on the company's fundamentals.

Harry Eisenberg

Those who are fighting our republican institutions are leaders of Catholic organizations: Clericalism is the enemy.

Leon Gambetta

We'll generate significant, significant revenue for the conference and the institutions that participate.

Dennis Thomas

We're in a society where an awful lot of the institutions we have were built for a different era, an era where we had 16 workers for every retiree.

Stephen Friedman

His victims were for the most part financial institutions who exact their revenge in courtrooms.

Phillip Russell

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

Henry George

Losing two institutions downtown, it smarts. There's no doubt about that.

Ty Tabing

All institutions and systems have been destroyed and he has failed to create anything new. He has isolated himself and the monarchy internally and externally.

Rajendra Dahal

I see this for what it is. It is not a victims' rights issue. It is not a victims' services issue. The issue is an attack on the Catholic institutions.

James Papillo

It's got big floor plates, a good elevator system. It's a world-class building, which corporations and institutions search for.

Andy May

Syria is trying to strengthen its hegemony in Lebanon by controlling more and more institutions.

Gen Michel Aoun

Substantial financial institutions on the ground (is important). I would never recommend to a client a small bank that has no affiliation with a larger institution.

Michael Payton

They take an oath. They do not come to represent those institutions.

Bob Klein

ABN AMRO, like many financial institutions today, faces the challenge of increased accountability and compliance requirements.

Bernard Bailey

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

Berthold Auerbach

We are committed to the providing China with the most comprehensive medical information available from the world's most distinguished institutions.

Michael Chermak

It's not unusual for a number of private institutions to be going through budget difficulties.

Tony Pals

In those days, there were a lot of seniors put into institutions who didn't need to be institutionalized. They needed community centers.

Doug Sauer

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

Edward Abbey

We won't have as much polish on the buildings and grounds as we'd like, but all our learning institutions are ready.

William Lewis

But it is wonderfully heartwarming to see how our fellow institutions have come to our aid.

Melissa Lee

Big institutions are preparing for the fiscal year end, so there are few sellers in the market.

Kazuyuki Naito

The government is asleep -- there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions.

Busho Ibrahim Ali

I consider it to be an in-kind contribution, ... is to associate Ehrlich with one of the most popular and enduring institutions in the city of Baltimore.

Derek Walker

It's not that journals need to be more careful. Institutions need to be set up so that we don't produce this problem.

David Magnus

We spoke with more than 50 financial institutions and each of them gave PCS top marks for customer service, conversions and system capabilities.

Jerry Rogers

Based on our assessments now, most of those institutions are doing reasonably well. All of them, as of today, remain well capitalized or adequately capitalized and they are holding their own.

Martin Gruenberg

This is a very sad, sad day for New York and one of her most wonderful institutions.

David Lennon

We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its institutions.

Vincente Fox

A lot of these countries owe money to [U.S. banks] in dollars and yen and, therefore, our financial institutions may find it a little more difficult to collect on some of that money.

Robert Hormats

What institutions can't afford today is to be blind to things, to not ask questions to which they're afraid to hear the answers. It is in the best interest of everyone to get more background.

Harvey Schiller

As we explain the benefits to the financial institutions, migration will occur.

Kerry Williams

I am deeply honored to have been entrusted with this task. The President is the trustee of one of the world's greatest institutions.

Rosalyn Higgins

It tells you how low diversity is at other institutions.

Rhonda Brown

We can learn from the event that relevant institutions and government agencies are paying more attention to fighting against academic misconduct, but it is far from enough.

Fang Zhouzi

I think there will be closer connections to some of the research institutions in this state.

Tom Still

We understand that halftime shows, homecoming and other presentations are important to our institutions. So the allowance is there.

Charles Broyles

It is time we structure our institutions of knowledge to be a global player in the 21st century.

Sam Pitroda

It's been developing for some time. We're looking at it at other institutions.

Mike Currie

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

William Graham Sumner

We've been approached by it all -- the quick service restaurants, cars and trucks, financial institutions.

Pat Brisson

We are all dedicated to getting these institutions back up and running as quickly as possible.

Brian Cowen

So this has been a battle of ideas, ... This has been a battle of institutions. We recognize that there are certain fundamental things that you have to do collectively through government. But it is through the free market that the ingenuity of individual creators and enterprises flourishes.

Lewis Uhler

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

Slobodan Milosevic

The English and, more latterly, the British, have the habit of acquiring their institutions by chance or inadvertence, and shedding them in a fit of absentmindedness.

Lord Hailsham

The most important institutions may or may not be the institutions with the best balance sheets.

Stephen Berger

So distance learning for high school students with these institutions will be available.

Gregg Kretchun

Hospitals are institutions, bureaucracies that don't change quickly, though some of them are capable of doing that.

Joseph Parker

And he can help communicate with these institutions for cooperation in relation to financial matters.

James Sung

Strengthening of democratic institutions ... and the creation of jobs and prosperity.

Alberto Fujimori

We are transforming non-governmental organizations into financial institutions.

Enrique Garcia

Overseas institutions came in quite heavily overnight on the buy side.

Edward Bonsor

The problem is that these institutions made it through the storm but the worst may be yet to come.

Ed Able

This is the greatest damage to and loss of cultural institutions and cultural patrimony in the history of the country.

Ed Able