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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
There are two ways to wash the dishes. One way is to wash them to get them clean. The other way is to wash them in order to wash the dishes.
Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.
Do you require yourself to remember? In order to live as you can and should, you first must remember who you are and what you’ve been given.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour's feet.
I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.
The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.
The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.
I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.
We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.
I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.
for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use
I felt that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to do certain things, and one of them was to have a hit in my own right. At least one.
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.
I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.
Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.
The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders.
I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.
Miracles happen. They have happened to me and they are happening to you. You need only look to the people in your lives in order to see them.
Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events.
One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better.
There is no getting around the fundamental fact that we need to interact with everything in order to manifest the wholeness we are born with.
[W]e will do what we like with the bourgeoisie. ... We give the orders; they do what they are told. Any resistance will be broken ruthlessly.
The largest business in American handled by a woman is the Money Order Department of the Pittsburgh Post-office; Mary Steel has it in charge.
The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.
I'm the type of guy that feels pressure when I have to order dinner. I'm just that type of guy but that's my fuel. I work well with pressure.
As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.
If you need scale in order to create value, it's hard to get scale, because there's little incentive for the first people to use the product.
Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different.
In order to qualify as a judgment, an affirmation must aim at getting it right aptly, through competence, and not just through a lucky guess.
I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.
Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.
I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.
There is no more embarrassing thing in my life than the fact that I have actually uttered the phrase, 'I would like to order the Ginsu Knife.'
I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.
Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
In reading our newspapers today, we can see how God is setting the table, getting everything in order, preparing the way for Christ to return.
The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all their customers' needs.
Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.