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  • Vera Brittain All that a pacifist can undertake - but it is a very great deal - is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Mary Caroline Richards Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.
    Mary Caroline Richards
    American poet, potter, and writer (1916 - 1999)
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  • William Hazlitt An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Napoleon An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Jean Cocteau An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Arne Jacobsen And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Arthur Levitt Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • John Philip Sousa Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
    John Philip Sousa
    American composer and conductor (1854 - 1932)
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  • Carol Loomis Approaches to determining stock values vary, but fundamentally, each company judging itself undervalued is saying that its future stream of earnings justifies a higher price than the stock market is willing to accord it.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Burton Richter As accelerators reach higher and higher energies, we may need a new Standard Model, or, at least, today's may need to be modified, but that's the way science operates.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • B. D. Wong As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Peace Pilgrim As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Alfred Noyes At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.
    Alfred Noyes
    English poet, short-story writer and playwright (1880 - 1958)
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  • Bette Davis Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Bonnie Bassler Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Bob Dylan Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Ezra Taft Benson Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.
    Ezra Taft Benson
    American farmer, government official, and religious leader (1985 - 1994)
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  • Georges Bataille Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Caroline Knapp Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Being is both presence and absence. God had to conceal His presence in order to bring the world into being. He had to make His absence possible in order to make room for the world's presence. Coming into being brought along denial and defiance, absence, oblivion and resistance.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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