"Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice."
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"In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric."
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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."
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"What we want is not power, but simply combination in order to elicit the largest possible giving."
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"Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace and civil order in the Gulf region, and to help those members of civil and ethnic minorities who continue to suffer through no fault of their own. If we succeed, our military success will have achieved its true objective."
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"Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him."
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"The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati...when their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, i.e. becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot."
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". . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind."
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"The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense."
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"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."
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"It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time."
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"True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed."
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"In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate."
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"The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders."
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"War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors."
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"Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers."
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"Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise."
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"But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward."
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"...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing."
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"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."
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