"Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table."
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"But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn."
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"What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."
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"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different- life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself- a girl should be two things: who and what she wants."
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"These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings."
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"Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias."
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"In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it."
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"There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim"
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"Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions."
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"The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose."
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"I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire."
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"In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two."
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"One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams."
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"What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but in order for us to actually be free in our social interactions, there must be an extremely elaborated network of health, law, institutions, moral rules and so on."
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"Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions."
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"Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump."
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"In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats."
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"Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?"
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"The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all."
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"To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow."
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