Octavia E. Butler Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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In 1998, I self-published online in order to get a traditional deal.
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I don't order laws, I propose them.
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
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I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
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Justice is merely incidental to law and order.
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And God help you if you are a phoenix, and you dare to rise up from the ash.A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy, while you're just flying past.
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In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when they hire people that students didn't learn what we needed them to learn. Online learning offerings, like the University of Phoenix, have relationships with employers and teach what you need to know.
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Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.
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In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it.
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Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.
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You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.
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...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succor them; through the spirit of a child, a poor gypsy or an old man, by a song perhaps, or even it might be by the fall of a leaf or the scent of a flower. For His infinite and humble patience nothing was too small to advance His purpose of salvation and eternity was not too long for its accomplishment.
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If I'm not the sexiest man alive, explain why so many women married me.
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In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
