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Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
William Ralph Inge
A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.
Renny Harlin
I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s.
Jay Hernandez
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
Groucho Marx
We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.
Chester Brown
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The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
Lee Iacocca 
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
Quincy Jones
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No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Peter Drucker
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
H. L. Mencken
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Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.
Bud Selig
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I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.
Simon Raven
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Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.
Kelly Millar
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Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.
Jacques Derrida
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A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one.
Douglas Jerrold
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The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
Horatio Alger
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