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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
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I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.
Angelina Grimké
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be performed.
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I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
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I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...
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I quote others in order to better express myself.
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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
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I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
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I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
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I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle.
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I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.
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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
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I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives.
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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
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