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"In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to read Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will... Each hour is precious."
"A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others."
"Collectivism is the ancient principle of savagery. ... Collectivism is not the 'New Order of Tomorrow.' It is the order of a very dark yesterday."
"For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people."
"Id like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis."
"Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children."
"You've got to be in a determined state in order to succeed."
"We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics."
"I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."
"If you order a milkshake at a diner and they mix dog poop into it, you probably wouldn't drink it. If you go into a town with pollution, you may survive and have a good visit, but you risk being poisoned."
"I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment."
"You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness."
"...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions."
"In order to be the master of your life, you must first recognize that you are the rightful master of your brain, its owner and operator."
"We are charmed by neatness: Let not your hair be out of order. [Lat., Munditiis capimur: non sine lege capilli.]"
"The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy."
"And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend will ask you to declare yourself by taking up arms. And irresolute princes, in order to avoid present dangers, follow the neutral road most of the time, and most of the time they are ruined."
"The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity."
"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds."
"If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others."
