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I think TV shows have usurped films! -- Edie Campbell
The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive. -- Marc Maron
If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others. -- Hassan Nasrallah
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion. -- William Godwin
I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
This is a great continent. I went to primary school on this continent, secondary school, university. I've worked on this continent, and I think that it's a great disservice that, for whatever reason, people have usurped an imagery of Africa that is absolutely incorrect. -- Dambisa Moyo
I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society. -- Benazir Bhutto
There is nothing a worker resents more than to see some man taking his job. A factory can be closed down, its chimneys smokeless, waiting for the worker to come back to his job, and all will be peaceful. But the moment workers are imported, and the striker sees his own place usurped, there is bound to be trouble. -- Charles M. Schwab
We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. -- John Steinbeck
Secession withdraws the State out of the reach of the usurped powers -- Abel P. Upshur
Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place. -- Walter Savage Landor
[Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power. -- Chuck Smith
For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power. -- Henry Fielding
Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire -- John L. Dagg
Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time. -- Martin Amis
Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction. -- Freda Adler
Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try. -- Rex Stout
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe. -- Haruki Murakami
The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom...have been thrust out of all public employment...a race of merchants, and manufacturers and bankers and loan-jobbers and contractors have usurped their place. -- William Cobbett
Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives of older, slower literature and handmade visual art. -- Peter Schjeldahl
The truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks government at will ... --
Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life. -- Allan Bloom

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