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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
Dalai Lama

Leader, King, Rule

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
George McGovern

Love, Patriotism, Deep

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous Huxley

Country, Office, Dignity

In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Time, Next, Found

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.
Barbara Jordan

Good, Tell, Nation

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Nothing, Few, Rules

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
Billy Joel

Life, Around, Artist

I've tried a lot of different apps to manage Twitter on my phone (I use Hootsuite on my laptop), but I think the official Twitter app is really good.
Susan Orlean

Good, Different, Tried

If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.
Ann Coulter

Hurt, Hate, Before

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.
Marilyn vos Savant

Office, List, Post

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Someone, Him, Position

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
James K. Polk

Whole, Action, Stand

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
Christopher Lasch

Society, Important, Sense

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.
Alan Dershowitz

Freedom, Important, Act

I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.
Iain Duncan Smith

Life, Live, Someone

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
Haile Gebrselassie

Brain, Tell, High

I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.
Sloane Crosley

Learning, Idiot, Means

Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.
Jeb Bush

Time, Today, Political

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.
Eric Liu

History, Country, Create

Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.
Stockwell Day

Marriage, Sex, Human

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.
John McCarthy

Society, Forget, Made

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Peter Jennings

Religion, After, Empire

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.
Jaron Lanier

Business, Mean, Economy

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
Naguib Mahfouz

Politics, Political, Party

I have the biggest hair in the world - and that's official!
Cat Deeley

It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said.
David Letterman

Said, Everybody, Race

Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly.
Michelle Malkin

Life, Good, Motto

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.
Gregory Bateson

Education, Nature, Nothing

I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state.
Jan Brewer

State, Anybody, City

I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for official events at school. I used to wrap my tie in a newspaper, and whenever the teacher checked I would quickly put it on again. I'm not used to it. Most Bolivians don't wear ties.
Evo Morales

Teacher, School, Young

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