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The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.
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.
[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed.
Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
If people don't actively knock the scenery over and they get the words out in something approximating the right order, you're moving on.
Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.
Our world spins upside down and sometimes we have to lose our grip on the things we value in this life in order to grab on to true life.
To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick with them for life.
Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.
I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.
The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.
When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.
It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)
The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.
Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.
Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
I was a waitress. I was pretty good at it. I liked to solve those puzzles-you know, when to put the dinner order in, that sort of thing.
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told.
Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.
Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.
Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.
I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to be - in order to come up with a good excuse.
Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.
I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient.
On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.
In 1946, I re-enrolled at the University of Budapest in order to obtain a Ph.D. in philosophy with minors in sociology and in psychology.
Good governance is treating development as a mass movement in order to see that fruits of development reach the poor and the downtrodden.
there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking.
Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.
In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.
The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.
In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.
We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct.
The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.
God would turn the world around to find suffering in order to give it to a soul upon whom He has set His Divine gaze with ineffable love.
We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.
Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.
There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression.
I'm not much of a drinker. I'm an eater more than a drinker. So I feel that I don't have to wait to get a hangover in order to eat these.
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.
But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.