"Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents."
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"Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people."
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"When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out."
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"It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which appear to differ from the absolute truth so far as the bare meaning of the words is concerned."
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"Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone"
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"Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order."
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"Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man."
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"The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one. Power corrupts indeed when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before."
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"THIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her...I'm falling asleep in order to hear her...Go on, sister, go on...My heart aches because I wasn't you when you dreamed at the seashore."
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"Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
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"It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state of order again; for the nature of mundane affairs not allowing them to continue in an even course, when they have arrived at their greatest perfection, they soon begin to decline."
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"The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order."
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"In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist."
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"When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses."
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"Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself."
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"Organize one's values in the order of their worth"
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"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
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"Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at risk of arrest and prosecution, the United States will be most reluctant to act in order to curb aggression or prevent genocide. So the effect of the court may well be to diminish, not increase, the numbers of (in the words of the UN Secretary General) 'innocents of distant wars and conflicts'."
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"There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream."
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"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."
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