I Quotes
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“In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met on the internet.”
“In order to pay it's got to be a pretty big winner. But if it's a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you've got a very tough comparison.”
“In order to perfect your craft, you've gotta go hard, you've gotta go overtime.”
“In order to perform the supernatural, you must first be able to accomplish the supernormal.”
Source: Satan Speaks!
“In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.”
“In order to pick something up, you've got to put something down.”
“In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.”
“In order to plant the Gospel, we must take risk.”
Source: Revolution in World Missions: One Man's Journey to Change a Generation
“In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.”
“In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.”
“In order to play musically you have to learn the art of exaggerating.”
“In order to play some sports there's quite a big cost implication, whereas football is relatively cheap. All you need is a ball and a couple of jumpers to practise.”
“In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.”
“In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.”
Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
“In order to prepare for meaningful change, we have to look at both sides of the problem. We need to examine the output of our political system, which is often very hostile to the poor abroad and hostile also to the poor and middle class domestically. And we must also look at the procedures through which this output is produced.”
“In order to preserve a balance, while we aren't planning to build a missile defence of our own, as it's very expensive and its efficiency is not quite clear yet, we have to develop offensive strike systems. They [U.S.] should give us all the information about the missile defence, and we will be ready then to provide some information about offensive weapons.”
“In order to prevent a violation of the principle of nonmaleficence, every human being must be valued at the highest level of development, because attaching value to any lower level of development risks the possibility of undervaluing that human being (i.e., subjecting him to the classification of being "inferior" or "less than human"). This undervaluation, in turn, allows for a serious violation of the principle of nonmaleficence, that is, justifying killing, slavery, marginalization, isolation, etc., of this human being because the human being is thought to be "inferior" or "less than human.”
Source: Ten Universal Principles: A Brief Philosophy of the Life Issues
“In order to prevent chronic discomfort, Whites may learn not to notice.
But in not noticing, one loses opportunities for greater insight into oneself and one's experience. A significant dimension of who one is in the world, one's Whiteness, remains uninvestigated and perceptions of daily experience are routinely distorted. Privilege goes unnoticed, and all but the most blatant acts of racial bigotry are ignored. Not noticing requires energy.”
Source: Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
“In order to prevent chronic discomfort, Whites may learn not to notice.”
“In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection.”
“In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.”
Source: The writings of a savage
“In order to produce, you must first be ethical.”
“In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.”
Source: The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, vol 2
“In order to progress, radio need only go backward, to the time when singing commercials were not allowed on news reports, when there was no middle commercial on a news report, when radio was rather proud, alert and fast.”
Source: In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961
“In order to promote your own career, you need to promote the careers of others.”
“In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.”
Source: An Experiment in Criticism
“In order to properly mature and live with a healthy purpose, women and girls need to reclaim their femininity.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“In order to prosper then, in whatever way we choose, we need to regain all of the energy that we were born with, and have created throughout the course of our life; energy which we have lost due to energy predation in one form or another. We need to do this in order to first of all escape the mass of the world and all its memetic traps, and in that way find true freedom, and the power needed to accomplish our life purpose.”
Source: The Magnum Opus, A Step by Step Course
“In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“In order to “protect” ourselves by keeping our lives small and shutting out intimacies, we could actually be hurting ourselves, missing out on a transformative experience of the heart, and sabotaging our small but crucial contribution to making peace.”
Source: Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
“In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.”
“In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls.”
“In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.”
“In order to put an end to the occupation, you must make peace between the Israeli and Palestinian people. This is the real aim, this is the real task.”
“In order to put it into perspective, as an actor, it's super hard to get on a TV show. If you get on one, it's super hard for that show to be reasonably successful. All of that, on paper, seems pretty special. It's the sum of the parts, really. To roll the dice and come up with this particular show is pretty fortunate. I'm very happy about Silicon Valley series. It's changed everything for me.”
“In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.”
“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.”
“In order to radically transform the way in which our societies function, and to have true sovereignty and liberation, that it would require deep, deep healing. I do see transformative justice work as necessary for sovereignty and liberation. In order to be able to govern ourselves, we have to be able to hold ourselves accountable in loving and ways that are not harmful or create more violence.”
Source: Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
“In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.”
“In order to re-engineer man, the “invisible governors” had to create a world populated by “mass man,” rootless individuals cut off from ethnic and religious affiliation who relied not on religion or tradition or the moral codes they propagated, but rather on the opinion of what seemed to be everyone else as propagated by the mass media. The new authority which everyone followed in this regard was science. Science broke taboos; science gave rational permission whereas tradition proposed only irrational restraint.”
Source: Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control
“In order to reach for the stars, you must have both feet planted firmly on the ground.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“In order to reach your full potential, you must first believe you have potential. You have unique skills, interests, perspectives, ideas and ways of showing up in the world that make you different than anyone else in the universe. The pain and suffering you feel now will one day be a blurry memory, and your challenges and darkest moments are what make you an inspiration to others. The things that make you different than your peers are the very things that make you important and valuable.
Every great leader, activist and change-maker started as a child who chose to take action to change the world. Remind yourself over and over again that have the power to choose; You have the power to choose to embody the best version of yourself; You have the power to choose to make life better for the people and world around you; You have the power to choose the legacy you leave behind. Whoever you want to be and however you want to be remembered, choose that. Never forget you matter, and you choose your life story.”
Source: One Wave: A little book of oneness
“In order to reach your highest potential, it is imperative that you remove all negative people from your life.”
“In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living.”
“In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“In order to realize the goal of creating a new starting line that anyone can instinctively understand we have come up with a design that differs greatly from any of today's controllers. We have also made bold innovations in play style as well.”
“In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.”
Source: Jesus is Victor
“In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.”
Source: Red Wolves and Black Bears
“in order to really possess knowledge, whatever it may be, you must put it into practice, that is, master your
nature so as to be able to express this knowledge in action. ... You are still very young, but you must learn right away that to reach the goal you must know how to pay the price, and that to understand the supreme truths you must put them into practice in your daily life. That’s all.”
Source: Questions and Answers 1957-1958