"A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all."
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"This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under the age of thirty...It may play an important and increasing role in the consolidation of a new world order."
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"He was carrying a suitcase with clothing in order to stay and another just like it with almost two thousand letters that she had written him. They were arranged by date in bundles ties with colored ribbons, and they were all unopened."
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"The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you're putting together a story that is completely out of order, that you have to make some sense of, that you have to keep some coherence to the story, to the character."
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"She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there."
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"When I was 13, I really used to skip down the street, happy in thinking, "Oh, well, someone's suffering pain in order for me to feel this pleasure.""
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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."
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"You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed."
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"I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders."
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"Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective."
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"Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort."
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"I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart."
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"It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings."
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"Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day."
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"In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy."
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"Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world."
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"I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it."
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"I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice my freedom, in order to show you how deeply I care. Because when you see the depth of my concern, and how civil I am in going about this, you're bound to change your mind about me, to abandon your rigid, unjust position, and to let me help you see the truth of my cause."
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"The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish."
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"I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses."
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