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The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.
The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
Your greatest asset is your earning ability, to apply your knowledge, skills in order to get results which others will pay.
The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.
He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight.
I would like to remembered as President as somebody who did not compromise principles in order to try to be loved or liked.
One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.
One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.
Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
I would love to direct videos and that's what it keeps moving towards, but I have to stop being scared in order to do that.
I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.
People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.
The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It’s really precious, and it’s really easy to lose.
What on earth are you wearing? Did you take orders in a convent since we spoke last? Little Sisters of the Drab and Homely.
Thus, in setting an American agenda for a New World Order, we must begin with a profound alteration in traditional thought.
I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.
People say that [i'm a celebrity], but I've only had to sign autographs for "civ-libs" types. And I autograph court orders.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
I'm a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I'm a terrible loser.
Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.
I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.
There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.
In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of my portraits.
When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
On August 28, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6260, outlawing the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to own gold.
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.
The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.
Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.
The investigation of this problem - How is spontaneous order possible? - is sometimes referred to as the 'Hayek programme'.
One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave.
If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.
I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.
Creativity does not derive from order but from the attempt to impose order where it does not exist, to make new connections.
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
Those who gave the orders, oversaw the killings, and ordered the subsequent cover-up have yet to be arrested and prosecuted.
Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.
To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.
There has to be some kind of personal hygiene bar that a person needs to clear in order for a relationship to be successful.
The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.