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Order Quotes
"The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidiness was generally considered de couleur for a prefect's room."
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"In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated."
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"What seems to be a chaotic life is just a systematic, engineered Life driven for a purpose!!! The day you find peace in chaos, the game changes!"
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"The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely."
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"In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other."
40
"We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another."
40
"Taxes should be lower, flatter, and simpler, in that order."
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"Michael, in a motel in Twentynine Palms, a gun in his hands. Not at Meredith's, painting in an explosion of new creation. Not over on Sunset, digging through the record bins, or at Launderland separating the darks and lights. Not at the Chinese market, looking at the fish with their still - bright eyes. Not at the Vista watching an old movie. Not sketching down at Echo Park. He was in a motel room in Twentynine Palms, putting a bullet in his brain."
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"A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show."
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"She'd jumped out of plenty of planes. Albeit with a parachute in place, but she pushed that worry aside."
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"The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle."
34
"You tend to become that, what you want most. Expect the best and give it your best. Make success happen."
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"Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created."
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"2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically."
33
"In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk."
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"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."
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"Without a relationship with God, it is not possible to have order in your life."
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"Rules meant order. Without them they'd be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parking in disabled spaces, with smoking in elevators. And it ended in murder."
30
"I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion."
30
"He doesn't blame people for many sins, but he does hate uncoordination, the root of all evil, as he feels it, for without coordination there can be no order, no connecting."
30
"I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors."
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"Order is what exists before you start arranging things."
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"There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love."
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"Think about Isis, Jaz repeated. "And Sadie, thereis a purpose. You taught us that. We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about. That's why its name, its ren, has endured for millennia. Don't despair. Otherwise Chaos wins."
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"The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order."
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"Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion."
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"God has created the world to be run by His principles."
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"But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential."
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"For every natural law inherent in creation, there is the creator's precision."
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"Discipline is a demand of life."
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"A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They're all parts of yourself."
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"Nothing Functions Normally Apart From The Principles Of The Kingdom Of God."
15
"I thought if I followed the rules, things would turn out all right. that's the thing about the cure, isn't it? It isn't just about deliria at all. It's about order. A path for everyone. You just have to follow it and everything will be okay. That's what the DFA is about. That's what I belevied in-what I've had to believe in. Because otherwise, it's just...chaos."
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"Overrated is order."
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