Order Quotes
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And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men expand, if not to the point of bursting then to that of the most unbridled folly, indeed madness, if the pressure of want, toil, calamity and frustration were removed from their life. One can even say that we require at all times a certain quantity of care or sorrow or want, as a ship requires ballast, in order to keep on a straight course.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them as we try to understand anyone — in order to know them better, not in order to know something else.
William H. Gass
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I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in the universe seemed miraculous.
Joseph Murray
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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
Baruch Spinoza
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Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.
Sandra Cisneros
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In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.
Rudolf Arnheim
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When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.
George Bernard Shaw
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When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.
Herbert Spencer
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The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves, makes them unavoidably complicit in a system that has to be unmasked, unveiled, undressed in order to be reformed or destroyed.
Michael Eric Dyson
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If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order.
Alfred Hermann Fried
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Do you have to think specific positive thoughts about your body in order for your body to be the way you want it to be? No. But you have to not think the specific negative thoughts. If you could never again think about your body and, instead, just think pleasant thoughts - your body would reclaim its place of Well-being.
Esther Hicks
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In order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.
Chris Bradford
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I will bring order from chaos and light from darkness.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I'm not always thinking and working ... I think a leader has to really be a balanced, whole and healthy person personally in order to be the best leader on the job.
Mike Duke
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You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.
Virginia Woolf
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Liberty is a product of order.
Will Durant
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The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves.
Richard N. Haass
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In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.
Paul Gauguin
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God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.
Seamus Heaney
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People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves
Ernest Becker
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I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
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I felt I had to work even harder in order to help two sets of parents. Most of my money I send home to let my parents manage. The rest I use for living expenses in America.
Chien-Ming Wang
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In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.
Ray Bradbury