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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
Law and Lawyers
Henry Ward Beecher

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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
Institutions
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
Slavery
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
Marriage
James Graham

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The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
Family
Paul Johnson

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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
Institutions
George Santayana

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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
Body
Gloria Steinem

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
Marriage
Source Unknown

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Marriage
Mae West

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun