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  • Billy Collins When you put a book together and arrange it, there's a lot of anxiety and turmoil about what order the poems should be in.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Billy Collins When you put a poem on a Kindle, the lines are broken in order to fit on the screen. And so instead of being the poet's decision, it becomes the device's decision.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Saadi Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Emile Durkheim While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Barton Seaver While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill. Don't be fooled into thinking that you need any fancy gadgets in order to take advantage of cooking over a live fire. Just a good set of tongs and you're set.
    Barton Seaver
    American author and chef (1979 - )
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Campbell Brown Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
    Source: As quoted in The New York Times (1 January 1978)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • E. M. Forster Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake.
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    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Elie Wiesel Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Boris Pasternak Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.
    Source: Doctor Zhivago (1958)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Audre Lorde You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Carol Burnett You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Michael E. Gerber You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.
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  • Peter T. Forsyth You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.
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  • Brad Pitt You must lose everything in order to gain anything.
    Brad Pitt
    American actor and filmmaker (1963 - )
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  • Boris Yeltsin Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Albert Einstein A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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