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Order Quotes
"We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another."
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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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"In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated."
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"Taxes should be lower, flatter, and simpler, in that order."
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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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"In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other."
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"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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"The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely."
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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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"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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"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."
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"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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"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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"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."
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"2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically."
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"Without a relationship with God, it is not possible to have order in your life."
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"Order is what exists before you start arranging things."
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"I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion."
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"You tend to become that, what you want most. Expect the best and give it your best. Make success happen."
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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."
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"God has created the world to be run by His principles."
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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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"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 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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"For every natural law inherent in creation, there is the creator's precision."
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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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"But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential."
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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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"Nothing Functions Normally Apart From The Principles Of The Kingdom Of God."
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"Overrated is order."
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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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"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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