Order Quotes
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We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.
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My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.
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The invectives against capital in the hands of those who have it are double-faced, and when turned about are nothing but demands for capital in the hands of those who have it not, in order that they may do with it just what those who have it now are doing with it.
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Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.
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God keeps the entire Universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me.
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Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?
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Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us.
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We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.
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Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade.
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The historical order is very interesting, but accidental and capricious; if we would to understand the growth of knowledge, we cannot be satisfied with accidents, we must explain how knowledge was gradually built up.
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The goal is the developed Kingdom of god, the New Jerusalem, a world order under god's law.
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I think it just takes time in order to come to a place where your comfortable being who God made you to be.
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A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.
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I think: the powers like to talk about "freedom" in order to wash the population's brains.
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In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.
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The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.
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The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.
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Leave the holy sites quickly, lay down their weapons and return to the rule of order and law.
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Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
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I have to have something that really excites me in order to write about it.
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When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.
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Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order
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I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned a ridiculous amount about alchemy. Perhaps much of it I'll never use in the books, but I have to know in detail what magic can and cannot do in order to set the parameters and establish the stories' internal logic.
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He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that he had been a revolutionist if that had been required in order to be socially disruptive.
