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“I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.”

Thinking Writing Years Book Reason Order Reading Periods Love Of Reading

Author:Philippa Gregory

“A guy walks into a bar, orders a drink, sees a girl that catches his eye. Asks her if she wants another, they fall for each other and end up lovers. They laugh, cry, hold on tight and make it work for a little while, then one night her taillights fade out into the dark. And a guy walks into a bar”

Ifs Want Littles Ends Eye Night Guy Order Fall Girl Asks Dark Walks Laughing Cry Lovers Drink Bars His Eyes Fades One Night

Author:Tyler Farr

“In order to fly, you have to be free.”

Order

Author:Li Cunxin

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

Ifs Men Made Hard Order Fellows Decent

Book:Lucia, Lucia: A Novel

Source: Lucia, Lucia: A Novel

“Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevented a lot of people who knew that the war was not going to turn out well for Germany from giving up.”

People Giving Firsts Wells War States Order Turns Giving Up Weak Police Prison Germany Execution Police State Summary

Author:Rick Atkinson

“The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all. When there is enough goods in a store, the purchasers can come whenever they want to. When there is little goods, the purchasers are compelled to stand in line. When the lines are very long, it is necessary to appoint a policeman to keep order. Such is the starting point of the power of the Soviet bureaucracy. It "knows" who is to get something and who has to wait.”

Knows Want Littles Long Enough Order Waiting Lines Poverty Struggle Objects Bases Starting Stores Goods Soviet Consumption Bureaucracy Compelled Policemen Starting Point Purchasers

Book:The Revolution Betrayed

Source: The Revolution Betrayed

“We must teach our children that the preservation of liberty, and of an order of society conducive to human dignity, requires that a free people retain the moral and material means to discipline its own government, should the temptation to tyranny take root.”

People Should Humans Mean Children Government Order Liberty Moral Teach Materials Discipline Dignity Roots Our Children Tyranny Temptation Preservation Human Dignity

Author:Alan Keyes

“I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.”

Order Jesus Process Healing

Author:Beth Moore

“Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see whats underneath.”

Sometimes Order Stuff Sides Surface

Book:So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us

Source: So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us

“Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.”

“Sometimes you have to destroy your business in order to save it.”

Sometimes Order

Author:James Surowiecki

“Motherhood goes back in history to a time when a father had no way of knowing his children. Fatherhood only became known when class patriarchal society had established itself and imposed monogamous marriage on women. Motherhood is like sun and rain and plants, a quality and product of nature which does not require laws or systems in order to exist.”

Way Children Doe Law Order Father Quality Known Class Sun Knowing Products Rain Plant Motherhood Fatherhood Patriarchal Society Sun And Rain

Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas injustice became a minor sin. I began to ask myself how this change had come about. Was it linked to a new order in which the female goddesses had been replaced by one male god?”

Years Two Order Asks Sin Crime Periods Thousand Worship Female Males Injustice Goddess Minors Replaced Thousand Years Linked Moses

Book:Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi

Source: Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi

“We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that is the real theater-totranscend them in the manner of play, bymeans of games and irony; it is good to be dirty and bearded, to have long hair,to look like a girl when one is a boy (and vice versa); one must put "inplay," show up, transform and reversethe systems which quietly order us about.”

Way Looks Long Real Play Shows Order Girl Games Boys Hair Theater Vices Dirty Irony Ritual Tied Arbitrary Vice Versa Bourgeois Long Hair

Author:Michel Foucault

“So when Jesus directs us to pray, “Thy kingdom come,” he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence. Rather, we pray for it to take over at all points in the personal, social, and political order where it is now excluded: “On earth as it is in heaven.” With this prayer we are invoking it, as in faith we are acting it, into the real world of our daily existence”

World Should Mean Doe Real Earth Political Order Jesus Heaven Social Prayer Acting Existence Praying Kingdoms Real World Excluded Kingdom Come

Author:Dallas Willard

“Pluralism is denied logically; inclusivism is denied scripturally, and that leaves us with exclusivism... you have to know that Jesus died and believe in it in order to be saved.”

Knows Believe Order Jesus Died Saved Denied Pluralism Pluralism Is

Author:Norman Geisler

“I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.”

World Important Order Tasks Priorities Experts Massive Panic Deadline

Author:Lucy Hawking

“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.”

Has Beens Said Religion Order Fate Happened Changed Paradise

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“I think normally people think that they're afraid to die but I actually think people are more afraid to live. People are more afraid to make the choices that they want because they're very hard decisions to make in order to be happy. I think a lot of people are really afraid of that. It's easy to be in a band because you have a lot of things to hide behind so that's really not always living...that doesn't always constitute as living life the way you want. But at times you have to make decisions that sometimes hurt others in order to live.”

People Thinking Way Want Sometimes Hard Order Dies Choices Easy Hurt Decision Behinds Band Live Life Hard Decision

Author:Gerard Way

“The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.”

Artist Order Pleasure Imagine Produce Bitter Imagine That Portraits Bitter Experience

Book:Let There Be Sculpture

Source: Let There Be Sculpture

“The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance.”

May Littles Moments Values Order Individual Lost Differences Results Events Battle Balls Importance Great Results

Author:Duke of Wellington

“Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories arent often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc.”

Stories Order Study Patterns Resistance Combat Epidemics Infection Weakening Havoc

Author:Jill Lepore

“Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.”

Persons Order Teach Missing Behavior Concepts Logic Oneself Manners Civilized Propriety Civilized Behavior Miss Manners

Book:Miss Manners' guide to rearing perfect children

Source: Miss Manners' guide to rearing perfect children

“It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.”

Country Seems Order Poverty Economic Blame Obvious Persistence Severe Thug Crooks Economic Order

Author:Thomas Pogge

“Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.”

Believe Heart Sometimes Order Decision Moral Compass Moral Compass Moral Decisions Unpopular Decisions

Author:Tabatha Coffey

“In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.”

Lying Order Term Relation Supreme Unseen Good Lies

Author:William James

“In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.”

Order Black White Sufficient Crow Assertion

Author:William James

“A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.”

Order Scientist Engineers

Author:Fred Brooks

“And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.”

Use Order Fighting Religious Common Arms Eight Brilliant Common Sense Thirty Knights Exponents Thirty Eight

Author:Dorothy Dunnett

“Man is spiritual being -- a soul, in other words -- and that this soul takes on different bodies from life to life on earth to order at last to arrive at such perfect knowledge, through repeated experience, as to enable one to assume a body fit to be the dwelling-place of a Mahatma or perfected soul. Then, they say, that particular soul becomes a spiritual helper to mankind.”

Men Different Soul Body Earth Lasts Spiritual Order Perfect Mankind Particular Fit Assuming Dwelling Helpers Spiritual Beings Dwelling Place

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain.”

May Use Body Might Pain Spiritual Spirit Order Enjoy Sickness Grants Ignored Sweetness Vigorous Good Health

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.”

Soul Order Rivers

Author:Zoroaster

“I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor.”

Source: The Rough Riders: An Autobiography

“To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge....It is to permit yourself an extraordinary, freedom: someone else does not have to be wrong in order that you might be right...This tolerance for mystery invigorates the imagination; and it is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.”

Giving Doe Might Order Universe Imagination Mystery Shapes Extraordinary Tolerance Damn Permit Might Is Right

Author:Barry Lopez

“Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day.”

Humans Order Existence Rights Human Rights Deny Basic Human Rights

Author:Aung San

“To choose order over disorder, or disorder over order, is to accept a trip composed of both the creative and the destructive. But to choose the creative over the destructive is an all-creative trip composed of both order and disorder”

Order Accepting Creative Destructive Disorder Order And Disorder

Book:Principia Discordia: The Magnum Opiate of, Malaclypse the Younger

Source: Principia Discordia: The Magnum Opiate of, Malaclypse the Younger

“With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.”

Giving Doe Order Class Dues Supreme Hiding Submit Dictatorship Proletariat Philistines

Book:The defence of terrorism: terrorism and communism; a reply to Karl Kautsky

Source: The defence of terrorism: terrorism and communism; a reply to Karl Kautsky

“In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.”

Ideas Stories Order Tvs Series Good Ideas Tv Series

Author:Tiny Tim

“The White House begun airing their TV commercials to re-elect the president, and the John Kerry campaign is condemning his use of 9/11 in the ads. He said, it is unconscionable to use the tragic memory of a war in order to get elected, unless of course, it's the Vietnam War.”

Said War Use Order Courses House President Memories White Tvs Campaigns Tragic White House Vietnam Ads Vietnam War John Kerry Condemning Tv Commercial

Author:Jay Leno

“You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.”

World Order

Author:Bernie Siegel

“We have truth in order not to die of art.”

Art Order Dies

Author:Steve Aylett

“Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order.”

Firsts Order Particular Thirds Making Love

Author:Steve Carell

“The system should speak the users' language, with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the user, rather than system-oriented terms. Follow real-world conventions, making information appear in a natural and logical order.”

World Should Real Order Speak Language Term Natural Information Concepts Familiar Phrases Logical Real World Conventions Users

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“Who is more amateurish, more vulnerable---those who rely on machines that need to be plugged in, or logged on, or in some other way connected in order to be more than a useless slab of plastic ... or those who have learned to master life without?”

Way Needs Order Masters Machines Connected Vulnerable Useless Rely Plastic Slabs

Book:The Lost Sisterhood: A Novel

Source: The Lost Sisterhood: A Novel

“The direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive.”

Order Fighting Consequence Direct

Author:Bernard Lietaer

“In the complex course of its evolution, life exhibits a remarkable contrast to the tendency expressed in the Second Law to Thermodynamics. Where the Second Law expressed an irreversible progression toward increased entropy and disorder, life evolves continually higher levels of order. The still more remarkable fact is that this evolutionary drive to greater and greater order also is irreversible. Evolution does not go backward.”

“I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.”

People Way Doe Order Religious Military Depends Discipline Shapes I Realized Routine

Author:Kit Reed

“Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.”

Kind War Government Order Fighting Teaching Gun West Jew Civil War Fundamentalism Jihad

Author:Arthur Hertzberg

“When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.”

Giving Order Tails Lemons Lobster Life Gives You Lemons

Author:Ziad K. Abdelnour

“I have one goal with all my decision: to do whatever is needed to win today's game. I'm loyal to my players, and I stick with people because consistency builds confidence. But if I feel I have to make a change in order to win, I'll do it. I don't ask players to like my decisions, only to accept that I'm doing my job with one thing in mind - winning.”

Source: Joe Torre's ground rules for winners: 12 keys to managing team players, tough bosses, setbacks, and success

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