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Order Quotes
"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."
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"The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely."
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"The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not."
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"Discipline is a demand of life."
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"Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing."
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"Order is what exists before you start arranging things."
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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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"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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"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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"That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming."
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"An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience."
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"Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore."
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"In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while."
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"Tao simply means the ultimate principle that binds the whole existence together. Existence is not a chaos; that much is certain. It is a cosmos. There is immense order in it, intrinsic order in it, and the name of that order is Tao."
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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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"Overrated is order."
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"It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own."
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"I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion."
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"Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two."
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"The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be."
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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."
"But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential."
"I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I."
"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."
"For every natural law inherent in creation, there is the creator's precision."
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