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handed over

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In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men. Kenneth Clark

No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others. Anthony Trollope

He is the master who, after reaching the furthest shores and plumbing the inmost depths of the sea of ultimate knowledge of mathematics, kinematics and spherics, handed over the three sciences to the learned world. Aryabhata

East of Suez, some hold, the direct control of Providence ceases; Man being there handed over to the power of the Gods and Devils of Asia, and the Church of England Providence only exercising an occasional and modified supervision in the case of Englishmen. Rudyard Kipling

There are no U. S. flyers in our country. The bodies were handed over to the Americans. We have no other bodies of flyers or living flyers in the Soviet Union. If we had, why should we try to hide them? Anastas Mikoyan

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it. Mason Cooley

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