"Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph."
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"America was founded on a genocide, on the unquestioned assumption of the right of white Europeans to exterminate a resident, technologically backward, colored population in order to take over the continent."
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"So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order."
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"Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you,in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety."
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"In order to take care of our ocean, we need to be knowledgeable."
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"In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods."
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"Being able to step outside of yourself in order to help someone else is why we're all here, it's what we should all be doing if we can."
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"It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head."
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"The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase."
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"Deal with it before it happens. Set things in order before there is confusion."
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"People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?"
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"In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself."
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"There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are."
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"A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order."
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"We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that."
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"Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China."
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"I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose."
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"Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out."
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"In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order."
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"They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another."
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