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Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.
Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.
Engineers have a very limited education and background, I think you need to move into the broader humanities in order to become a total person.
To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected circuit.
A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.
Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing. And then trust it-and yourself.
Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.
Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in order that our love may be complete
It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.
In order to get the worst possible first impression of Los Angeles one should arrive there by bus, preferably in summer and on a Saturday night.
In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.
We formed in 1993 to make it clear that we don't take our marching orders from anyone overseas, we have no connection to the Muslim Brotherhood.
We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.
And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.
There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.
If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.
People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.
Did the President order anyone to kill civilians, did he order the destruction, did he order supporting terrorism in his country? Of course not.
I'm going to try and make people realize that in order to live the life they are living, they need to have democracy, and it's being threatened.
We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.
In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to men as the contrary position.
Music is such an important element in creating the drama that a runway show needs in order to be memorable and to make the clothes come to life.
The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will endure.
A life-long mission has been to counter the notion that political engagement is the spinach we must eat in order to have the dessert of freedom.
American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.
What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.
Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.
My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.
I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits.
Maybe there were people out there whose love could survive anything, but mine was fragile. It needed to be nurtured in order to thrive and grow.
Disinformation is more than just lying: it's the denial and twisting of reality in order to present some desired image to the rest of the world.
The professional will not tolerate disorder... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.
Organizations need to undergo fundamental changes, both in order to adapt to the new business environment and to become ecologically sustainable.
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.
I know that even at moments of apparent danger, nothing is out of order or lacking, other than our own unquestioned thoughts about those moments.
I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.
One listless day followed another, with nothing to distinguish one from the next. You could have changed the order and no one would have noticed.
Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to be intensely alive.
In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
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.
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.
If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516
Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.
I make a lot of music for different people. My audience is varied so I use different tempos for different music in order to satisfy my many fans.
I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.