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"Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!"
67
"For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand."
31
"I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order."
18
"I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself."
14
"I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane."
9
"I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown."
9
"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."
8
"In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality."
8
"I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning."
7
"If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it."
7
"In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk."
6
"The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again."
6
"Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I."
6
"Without a relationship with God, it is not possible to have order in your life."
5
"Taxes should be lower, flatter, and simpler, in that order."
5
"It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy."
5
"Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out."
5
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it."
5
"We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another."
5
"I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things."
5
"Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets."
5
"Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts."
5
"I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!"
5
"We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show."
4
"A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show."
4
"God has created the world to be run by His principles."
4
"You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself."
4
"Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order."
4
"The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand on in order to get close enough to the microphone."
4
"Nothing Functions Normally Apart From The Principles Of The Kingdom Of God."
4
"Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order."
4
"I am co-counsel and as co-counsel I have the right to represent myself, speak for myself and conduct myself and my trial by myself in my best interests in order of due process."
4
"In order to be a top-tier candidate, I need 7.5 million dollars, and I currently have 0.0 million dollars."
4
"In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime."
4
"He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen."
4
"The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not."
4
"2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically."
4
"In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated."
4
"Discipline is a demand of life."
3
"Order is what exists before you start arranging things."
3
"In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other."
3
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