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  • Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One. -- Roger Mahony
  • The world is facing a new networked, digital lifestyle, and we will ensure that Canon remains ahead of the game. -- Fujio Mitarai
  • Canon is basically a very aggressive company. Our company works on competitive principles. It does not treat people equally, but it does treat them fairly. -- Fujio Mitarai
  • You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it. -- Henry Louis Gates
  • After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted. -- Abbe Pierre
  • Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. -- Pablo Picasso
  • A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man. -- Orson Pratt
  • Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon. -- William Shakespeare
  • Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be? -- William Shakespeare
  • Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done. -- Sydney Smith
  • I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first, -- Fujio Mitarai
  • I sold all my medium format equipment in 2005 after Canon came out with the 12 megapixel EOS 1Ds. -- Peter Menzel
  • His best-known piece is probably his "Canon in D." He also has 'Hexachordium Apollonis', which is also quite famous. -- Johann Pachelbel
  • I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct. -- Samuel Alito
  • If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation. -- Harold Bloom
  • The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics. -- Richard Curtis
  • I don't really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica. -- Elliott Erwitt
  • In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the archaic, and the canon of beauty. -- Thorstein Veblen
  • The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics. -- Brian Ferneyhough
  • During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village. -- George Crook
  • I can't remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and I was certainly far too young to have such a good camera. -- Alison Jackson
  • Inaudible prayers, particularly of the Canon, which at first don't seem to have anything to do with music, end up being a very important part of the aesthetic of the traditional structure of the Mass. -- Richard Morris
  • Logos (The Biblical Manuscripts/Canon of Scriptures) & Rhema (The Person/Life/Words/Death/Resurrection of Jesus Christ): The 'special' & 'ultimate' revelation of God. Without these revelations God would be unsearchable, unknowable, and inscrutable."~R. Alan Woods [2013] -- R. Alan Woods
  • The support of organizations including the NY Jets, Canon USA, USA Football, and Outback Steakhouse is a great example of how corporate America can make an impact in bettering the communities where employees work and live. -- Boomer Esiason
  • So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy. -- Charles Hodge
  • As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens. -- Boomer Esiason
  • Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere. -- A. E. Waite
  • Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey. -- Camille Paglia
  • Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work to be found on American stages, engaging with the canon of world dramatic literature in a vigorous way. -- Tony Kushner
  • What makes a difference is when we take our mind and put it into the scriptures, when we read the Buddhist Canon, the Pali Canon, when we read the Tibetan books, when we read anything inspiring - somebody else's journey into the world of enlightenment. --
  • Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first. -- Fujio Mitarai
  • Canon law pertains to Catholics. Jewish law pertains only to Jews. But the sharia dictates every basic aspect of human life, asserts its authority over non-Muslims, unlike Jewish law and unlike canon law, which is why they're slaughtering Christians, they're slaughtering secular Muslims across the Muslim world. -- Pamela Geller
  • I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power...power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -- Lord Acton
  • Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel. -- Leon Uris
  • One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included in a canonical list; on the contrary, the Church included them in her canon because she already regarded them as divinely inspired, recognizing their innate worth and generally apostolic authority, direct or indirect. -- F. F. Bruce
  • It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving, Filson Young, Canon Brookes, William Bolitho, and Harold Eaton--have not devoted more space to the Greene tragedy; for here, surely, is one of the outstanding murder mysteries of modern times--a case practically unique in the annals of latter-day crime. -- S. S. Van Dine
  • I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's own growing inner self. . . . The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude, that solitude whose final form is one's confrontation with one's own mortality. -- Harold Bloom
  • The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • I don't think I'm any competition to the already-existing canon of writers in Kannada. How can I ever even think of comparing myself? -- Amish Tripathi
  • In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions. -- Reza Aslan
  • Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well. -- Mitchell Zuckoff
  • Of the birth of subgenres, there is no end. They arise like bubbles full of miraculous hopes and potentials from the Planckian foam of the canon, inspiring writers new and established alike. -- Paul Di Filippo
  • I kind of love that there's not really a feminist canon; or maybe there is, but it's being changed, that it's a constantly moving canon in the feminist blogosphere. I love that. -- Jessica Valenti
  • Midnight's Children' falls under the genre of post-colonial writing, and there is a range of writers like V.S. Naipaul and Salman who popularised it. 'Midnight's Children' was incredibly important in this canon. -- Satya Bhabha
  • The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to the place of women's fiction in the canon of modern literature, to the rank of mint chocolate chip ice cream as a favorite Baskin-Robbins flavor. -- Erin Duffy
  • Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable because they were a lot like me - caused considerable consternation when they were first published, but now they're widely accepted as an essential part of the children's literary canon. -- Jeff Kinney
  • We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them. -- Zack Snyder
  • What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home. -- Megan Follows
  • Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in canon. You're supposed to believe that these weepy star boys of now are the same gung-ho super teens fighting space monsters in the '60s, and they've only aged perhaps five years. -- John Hodgman
  • I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past. -- Ronnie Dunn
  • My fan fiction is canon. -- Dwayne McDuffie
  • ...the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon. -- Noam Chomsky
  • I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon. -- Kate Zambreno
  • The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity. -- J. I. Packer
  • We have a rule in our franchise that there is no canon. You as a player decide what your story is. -- Casey Hudson
  • A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon. -- Kehinde Wiley
  • The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago. -- Peter Drucker
  • There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards. -- Paul Russo
  • Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review. -- William Kennedy
  • [Doctor Cukrowicz in Suddenly, Last Summer is] is one of the most unpronounceable roles in the modern-day theater day canon, and one of the most boring! -- Rob Lowe
  • It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon. -- Nelson Mandela
  • Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering. -- Anne Lamott
  • People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It's important to respect the iconography and the canon, but at the same time, you have to tell a story. -- Zack Snyder
  • My husband and I have watched a lot of Hitchcock movies in bulk, and there's a lot to be gained from that, from focusing strictly on an artists canon. -- Claire Danes
  • Edward Curtis was a photographer in the late 19th century who tried to document the rapidly disappearing Native Americans. He assembled a canon of work which, today, is exemplary and invaluable. -- Rhys Ifans
  • There are some individuals who look at graphic novels as 'canon,' and they cannot change in any way, shape or form, and that's what makes them in some ways good fans. -- John Ridley
  • We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams are not a source, but a canon, a legislative model.' -- Dumitru Tepeneag
  • I could name many women who travel or who work with America as a theme. I think it was more not being able to name canonical women, whose work is part of the American canon. -- Cynthia Daignault
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