Ordered Quotes
373 quotes by 319 authors
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The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company
— Seneca the Younger
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Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea is individually followed…
— Jan Potocki
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Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into an international pariah…
— Ted Rall
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If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either…
— Aristotle
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The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered…
— James Risen
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And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders
— Ernest Mandel
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Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.
— David Hyde Pierce
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I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has given me words…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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To those who had ordered them to death one of them said: 'We die because the people are asleep... you will die because the people…
— Carl Sandburg
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Cancer is the emergent property of the accumulated errors in an ordered system. It's the consequences of random events.
— Steven Popkes
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WASHINGTON - Ever since President Obama ordered American warplanes to begin bombing terrorist targets in Iraq and Syria last year, members of Congress have insisted…
— Peter Baker
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A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It seems to be a general belief that the will of God is to make things distasteful for us, like taking bad-tasting medicine when we…
— Charles L. Allen
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So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers…
— William Butler Yeats
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the…
— Karel Capek
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Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen, vigilant Texans are…
— Tommy Lee Jones
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that…
— Bram Stoker
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It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the…
— Ayn Rand
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Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured…
— Marshall McLuhan
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One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up…
— Richard Marx
Who Wrote These Ordered Quotes
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