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• The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. (Arthur Miller) [order]
• Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (Benjamin Franklin) [desire/give/order/security]
• 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. (Charles Dickens) [order/time]
• Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. (Thomas Mann) [order]
• The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. (Henry Miller) [security/mind/order/willpower]
• Read in order to live. (Henry Fielding) [order]
• For so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom. (William Shakespeare) [nature/teach/order]
• In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. (Theodore Dreiser) [order/wisdom/ignorance]
• Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. (John Adams) [exercise/wish/order]
• Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. (Julie Andrews) [people/discipline/order]
• We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. ( Aristotle) [give/leisure/order/leisure]
• Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. ( Aristotle) [order/state/mind]
• It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present. (Antonin Artaud) [order/time/time/present]
• However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself. (Antonin Artaud) [present/order/respect/order]
• In order to win, you must expect to win. (Richard Bach) [order]
• When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself. (James Baldwin) [order/face]
• Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. (Georges Bataille) [beauty/order/joy]
• The order of the world is always right -- such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin. (Jean Baudrillard) [order/right/god/god]
• It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality. (Jean Baudrillard) [universe/order/acceleration/logic]
• In order to be realist you must believe in miracles. (David Ben-Gurion) [order]
• An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood. ( Napoleon I) [order/willpower]
• Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry. ( Napoleon I) [order]
• Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. (Edmund Burke) [order]
• Good order is the foundation of all great things. (Edmund Burke) [order]
• Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. (Edmund Burke) [order/capital/society]
• Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites in order to give itself as a whole to the object that is put before it. (John Calvin) [order/give]
• Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are. (Albert Camus) [order/being/order]
• Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. (Albert Camus) [revolution/order/balance]
• In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist. (Albert Camus) [order]
• The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand. (Elias Canetti) [thoughts/order]
• The General Order is always to maneuver in a body and on the attack; to maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline; to keep the troops constantly at the ready; to employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go; to use the bayonet on every possible occasion; and to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed. (Lazare Carnot) [order/soul & body/attack/discipline]

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