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  • Boris Pasternak Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common round, has crumbled into dust and been swept away in the general upheaval and reorganization of the whole of society.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Marcel Proust Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Thomas Mann Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Aneurin Bevan Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Seneca Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • John W. Foster Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
    John W. Foster
    American diplomat and military (1836 - 1917)
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  • Ida P. Rolf 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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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Augustus William Hare Friendship close its eye, rather that see the moon eclipst; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Brenda Brathwaite From initial concept to final build, 'Train' was close to a year in development. Much of this was research and letting the dynamics of the project come to the surface.
    Brenda Brathwaite
    American game designer
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  • Cass Sunstein From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it's a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Charles Baudelaire Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Anna Lindh Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Edmund Burke Good order is the foundation of all good things.
    Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Charles A. Stoddard Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Jean Rostand Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Bobby Flay Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don't, you're dead. They should really have a warning sign on them. Deflect the habanero's heat by pairing it with sweet food.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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