Order Quotes
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?
Saint Augustine
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You focus on the here and now in order to escape existence forever and vanish into Nirvana. There is another religious impulse that is the opposite of this. It uses a world elsewhere in order to affirm life and give a reason to "go forth and multiply".
Quentin S. Crisp
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We need be bold and adventuresome in our thinking in order to survive.
William O. Douglas
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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.
Edward Judson
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The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.
Heraclitus
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For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts is, from an aesthetic point of view, grotesque. But you seem compelled by that risk in order to get to the other end of the equation.
Zadie Smith
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Talk in order that I may see you.
Socrates
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We are hearing from consumers who are saying 'I called in an order, I placed an order online, and it wasn't executed timely,' and as a result they lost money.
Eliot Spitzer
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Hitting at the top of the order is a good thing. You get more at-bats. I'm excited to see how this develops.
Chase Utley
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It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself
Albert Szent-Györgyi
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Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.
Marianne Williamson
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In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing is not reality as it really truly is. So enlightenment is seeing reality with bare awareness, non-conceptual reality.
Zeena Schreck
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Asking women to respect themselves in order to ‘earn’ the right to be treated like a human being is total horseshit. But suggesting that you have the right to treat her exactly as you please because she didn’t adhere to your archaic views of feminine propriety is misogyny, plain and simple.
Clementine Ford
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read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the best writers have achieved their result. Poor writing is, unfortunately, infectious and should be avoided.
P. D. James
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If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.
Viswanathan Anand
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Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.
Fady Joudah
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I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.
Mother Teresa
