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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

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In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

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We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us. What was ordained for us has been changed; it is not said that this has also happened with what was ordained for Paradise.

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The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are obliged to create our own language, it is because there are dimensions to ourselves absent from clichés, which require us to flout etiquette in order to convey with greater accuracy the distinctive timbre of our thought.

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If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.

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Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.

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To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

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Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

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I think that there's gonna be a lot of work to do in order to consolidate the transformations that I was interested in.

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I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

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And, in order to possess the Truth, the plays of the lower nature must be stopped.

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Any strategy to reduce intergenerational poverty has to be centered on work, not welfare--not only because work provides independence and income but also because work provides order, structure, dignity, and opportunities for growth in people's lives.

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But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure proper democratic practice.

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If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders.

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MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America.

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Today the search for a new global order is under way.

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In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

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If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.

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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.

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