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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;No wisdom but in submission to the gods.Big words are always punished,And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.

Bertrand Russell

Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.

H. H. Munro

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Bertrand Russell

I . . . would advise you and all House members to take greater care with the use of their name by others. Self-government requires not only lawmaking, but submission to those laws.

Rep. Dudley Goodlette

We feel it's important to have this document be complete in terms of scoping and technical methodology prior to submission to the public.

Raymond Jurkowski

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice.

Grover Cleveland

We intend to screen the bids for eligibility on the day following the submission of the bids and will select from the eligible bidders the winning bid on the second day after submission of the bids.

Lalit Modi

He came under the authority of others, and that's very difficult for a star player to have that kind of humility. Matt did that. I think as a Christian, he knows how to come under the submission of the Lord, and that's something that translates to life.

Jim Zorn

The most obvious funding mechanism would be the submission of a line item in the Court's yearly budget request.

David Weinstein

We destroyed everyone in the first tournament up there. We won everything by submission.

Carl Ragasa

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Stanley Milgram

We're going to take the president's submission as a serious proposal, and we're going to see where we can go and how we can work with the White House and the Democrats.

Richard Armey

In some instances local IEC offices were not aware of this and did not accept the submission.

Pansy Tlakula

My submission is that he should be treated as a first offender. He has good human qualities.

Johann Engelbrecht Sc

The No. 1 thing is to be one of those people who gets a lot of work done very well, very fast. Don't be scared into submission by all the downsizing activity. That's exactly the wrong message to take.

Bruce Tulgan

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

Ambrose Bierce

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

Sam Houston

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

George Iii

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

Kathleen Casey Theisen

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

Angelina Grimke

We won't clarify on oral submission.

Constitution Bench

We will include in the budget submission an estimated 70 billion dollars. The actual figure, when we finalize, may be slightly higher or slightly lower than that.

Joel Kaplan

Law and Justice created theater to crumble the will of its allies...and force them into submission. This was a crisis that turned out to be a storm in a teacup.

Jan Rokita

Her ruling on the request came only seven hours after the deadline for submission, before counties had completed their counts. She did not consider any facts and circumstances but rather cited cases to the effect that she lacked discretion.

Dexter Douglass

The workers took matters into their own hands, using a blunt instrument to beat the rat into submission. The rat was DOA.

Dave Humphrey

A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place. The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Margaret Sanger

After submission of the list of barriers by the business communities, both the governments will take appropriate steps for the removal of the barriers.

Morshed Khan

Delhi put a submission to us in January.

Mike Hooper

This submission also perpetuates the myth that women should submit and be subservient to their husbands.

Barbara Ward

That was one of the things she held against missionaries: how they stressed Christ's submission to humiliation, and so had conditioned the people of Africa to humiliation by the white man.

Nadine Gordimer

Any information whatsoever about this submission.

Richard Pound

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Frank Romano

Churches and venues end up with top-notch artists to fill their openings, as well as 50 percent of every submission fee.

Gary Lemaster