The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo, where I call it the Absolute Infinite or simply Absolute; second when it occurs in the contingent, created world; third when the mind grasps it in abstracto as a mathematical magnitude, number or order type.
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Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit by its abstract utility
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Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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In order to know what [the law] is, we must know what it has been, and what it tends to become.
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Justice is incidental to law and order.
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The only secret knowledge we have is know-how and you can't break up know-how by court order.
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Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.
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You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
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Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.
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Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
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Learn what is true in order to do what is right is the summing up of the whole duty of man
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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed
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Let us unite them together in one supreme power which shall govern us all according to wise laws, protect us and defend all members of the association, repulse common enemies, and maintain us in everlasting concord.. All ran towards their chains believing that they were securing their liberty, for although they had reason enough to discern the advantages of a civil order, they did not have the experience enough to foresee the dangers.
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Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents an invasion of the dearest rights.
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In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.
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A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by its very nature, orders things and life really has no order.
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It is really surprising sometimes how a prohibition seems to exist solely in order to be violated. And when I disobeyed I felt that what I did was pleasurable. For children such as I at that time - oh, how many prohibitions and restrictions were heaped on our heads! Yes, it was as though the whole world was watching us, bent forbidding whatever we did and what ever we wanted. Inevitably we children felt that this world was really intended only for adults.
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Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
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Life as we find it, is too hard for us: it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it, we cannot dispense with palliative measuresThere are three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitute satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances which make us insensitive to it.
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Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
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