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We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Very few people realize that the U.S. government does not have the power to order the recall of contaminated meat.

— Eric Schlosser

There's nothing you need to do, be, have, get, change, practice, or learn in order to be happy, loving and whole.

— Michael Neill

In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.

— Ashwin Sanghi

I don't want to ride on Sabbath's coattails in order to encourage my own opportunities.

— Bill Ward

Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.

— Thomas Merton

I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris.

— Romy Schneider

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.

— Tahir Shah

Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge…

— Ayn Rand

Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.

— Jerry Mander

I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have…

— Nhat Hanh

I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak…

— Clive James

There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to…

— Carl Jung

Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm…

— John Shelby Spong

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always…

— Johan Huizinga

Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but…

— Criss Jami

The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You…

— Alan Watts

The imperialists and domestic reactionaries will certainly not take their defeat Lying down and they will struggle to the last ditch. After…

— Mao Zedong

And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we…

— Adrienne von Speyr

Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness…

— Rajneesh

The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which…

— John Dewey

The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as…

— Jean Piaget

If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you…

— Regina Brett

My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and…

— Steven Pinker

I am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future.

— Mariko Mori

... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive

— Friedrich August von Hayek

In order to be a writer, first you must become an alive dead spirit.

— William C. Brown

It's very important for me to be absolutely present in order to be emotional.

— Julianne Moore

In order for me to 'endorse' an intelligence, I need to carry out lots of research.

— Howard Gardner

Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.

— Baruch Spinoza

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

— Post Malone

Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

— David Levithan

We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and…

— Anonymous

As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.

— Desmond Tutu

You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.

— John Barrowman

Even worthwhile endeavors need evaluation in order to determine if they have become distractions from the best goals.

— Quentin L. Cook

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

— Plato

A colossal event is upon us, the birth of a New World Order.

— Brent Scowcroft

In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years.

— Aleksandr Lebed

In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.

— David Perkins