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  • Bernard Crick One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Arthur Levitt One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Thomas Mann Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Alexander Pope Order is heaven's first law.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Robert Southey Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Napoleon Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Bertrand Russell Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
    The Scientific Outlook
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • John Foster Dulles Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • Bill Huizenga Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.
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  • Charles Horton Cooley Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • Lord George Byron Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Balthus Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • Bobby McFerrin Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • James Baldwin Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • B. Kevin Turner Phones remain a critical component of the Microsoft device portfolio and an important piece of our mobility strategy, but a restructuring is in order.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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