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Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.
Author:
John Yoo
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The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.
Author:
Robert Welch
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It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
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Mary Ward
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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
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Voltaire
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High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
Author:
Herbert Spencer
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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
Author:
Anna Spencer
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
Author:
William Sherman
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
Author:
Victoria Secunda
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Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.
Author:
Pepper Schwartz
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I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
Author:
Lord Salisbury
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Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.
Author:
George Saintsbury
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
Author:
Joshua Reynolds
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Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.
Author:
Frederick Reines
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
Author:
Ted Rall
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To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
Author:
Albert Pike
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I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.
Author:
Shimon Peres
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Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.
Author:
Enid Nemy
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Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.
Author:
John Moody
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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
Author:
H. Mencken
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I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
Author:
Patrick McGoohan
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I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.
Author:
Ernst Mayr
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Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.
Author:
James Maxwell
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
Author:
Maimonides
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I am a rank individualist.
Author:
Arthur Keith
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In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
Author:
John Ingalls
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There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
Author:
John Ingalls
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You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.
Author:
Kurt Huber
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The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.
Author:
Virgil Goode
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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me.
Author:
Philip Gibbs
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You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
Author:
Robert Frost
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I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file.
Author:
Vincent Frank
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Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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I was instructed by people in higher rank to stand there and hold this leash and look at the camera. We were doing what we were told.
Author:
Lynndie England
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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.
Author:
Dick Durbin
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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Author:
Peter Drucker
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Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
Author:
Mike Ditka
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There is no rank in sacrifice.
Author:
Josephus Daniels
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I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out.
Author:
Joe Cronin
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
Author:
Winston Churchill
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First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.
Author:
Michael Chertoff
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
Author:
Jean Bruyere
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Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
Author:
Johannes Brahms
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The party has to be much more. It has to connect in a real way with rank-and-file members and be their voice.
Author:
Wes Boyd
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
Author:
Napoleon Bonaparte
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
Author:
Bruce Barton
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No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.
Author:
Bernard Barton
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Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
Author:
Norman Augustine
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
Author:
W. Auden
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All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.
Author:
John Amery
