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"Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it."
"The word of God teaches that Christians suffer in order that they might glorify God in their lives."
"Ringing assurance that we are not alone... That we are assisted and defended by a powerful and glorious order of invisible Beings."
"They're selling postcards of the hanging."
"Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature."
"A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover."
"Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus--i.e., the weak, helpless, dependent creature--in order to become an independent competent adult deserving of respect. When we reencounter this creature in our children, we persecute it with the same measures once used in ourselves."
"Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook."
"Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there."
"We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating."
"Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious."
"The quintessential revolution is that of spirit. Without this, the forces which produce the inequalities of the old order will continue to operate."
"I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom."
"Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications - in order to hide one's motives, not just from others, but primarily from oneself. The price of rationalizing is the hampering, the distortion, and, ultimately, the destruction of one's cognitive faculty. Rationalization is a process not of perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions."
"To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust."
"According to the bible, Heaven is completely perfect and Hell is completely evil. In Heaven, in order to keep everything completely perfect, everyone in it would have to follow a long, specific set of rules for it to be perfect. Heaven is prison. In Hell, everyone is already evil there, so no rules need to be set to make it completely evil. Hell is freedom."
"You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you."
"I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves."
"Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace."
"If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?"
