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• Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.

  Bill Crawford

  Pain, Past, Color

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• The best way to create a purposeful life is to allow the soul's decision to precede the body's action. One does not do something in order to be compassionate, one is compassionate and, therefore, does certain things in certain ways. The actions of the body were meant to be reflections of a state of being, not attempts to attain a state of being.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Reflection, Decision, Soul

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• You believe in a god that plays dice; I believe in law & order.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Law, Play

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• If you're not spending every waking moment of your day radically rethinking the nature of the world-if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order-then you're wasting your day.

  Douglas Coupland

  World, Waking, Moments

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• Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right to literally purchase the copyright of a citizen's potential contribution to society. In a democracy they should not have the legal right to silence the quasi-totality of the functioning élite in order to satisfy a managerial taste for control and secrecy.

  John Ralston Saul

  Government, Silence, Democracy

  "On Equilibrium". Book by John Ralston Saul, 2001.

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• People feel they have to live that stereotypical lifestyle in order to be a rock star. You don't have to shoot heroin and act a certain way to be a rock and roll musician.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Stars, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

  Eddie Vedder

  Dutch, Speak, Pot

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• Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be bad and have invented theology in order to keep their neighbors good. Hence, the social character of Catholicism and the individual character of Protestantism.

  Bertrand Russell

  Character, Catholic, Neighbor

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.

  Tim LaHaye

  Revenge, Gun, Men

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• In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn't scary.

  Neil Gaiman

  Kids, Evil, Scary

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• A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated.

  Ann Landers

  Cancer, Grief, Fire

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• I thought I had to live that partying lifestyle in order to be authentic, but in fact if you keep it up too long, all you're going to be is sloppy or dead.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Party, Long, Facts

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• What is with waiters who don't write anything down and memorize your order instead? Are you trying to impress me or something? If you were that smart you wouldn't be a goddamn waiter in the first place.

  Aaron Karo

  Smart, Writing, Trying

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• When our priorities are out of order, we lose power. It takes personal revelation every day to help us prioritize and keep at bay the influences of the world that would draw us from what we are to do.

  Julie B. Beck

  Priorities, World, Helping

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• A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Singing, Example, Persons

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• In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Say Anything, Together, World

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• When Chuck House wanted to develop the oscilloscope for HP, David Packard told him to abandon the project. Chuck went on "vacation" and came back with $2 million in orders. Packard later gave him an award inscribed with an accolade for "extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering."

  Bob Sutton

  Vacation, Awards, Engineering

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• Leadership isn't about simply being in charge and treating your people like soldiers and barking orders. Leadership is sharing your knowledge and your direction so that others grow and reach their potential.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  People, Soldier, Grows

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• Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

  Bill Gates

  People, Track, Wish

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on Flying Cars, the Malaria Epidemic, and Article-Writing Robots". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 16, 2013.

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• Many of our actions degrade our habitat because we undertake them in order to reach goals whose allure blinds us to myriad dire consequences. In order to fuel our complex civilizations, we are lacing our planet's atmosphere with carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that, if it has not already begun doing so, will soon warm the Ice Age climate to which we owe our very existence.

  Steven M. Stanley

  Ice, Civilization, Goal

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• In order to unscramble some eggs the leader gotta have some balls

  Margaret Thatcher

  Eggs, Leader, Balls

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• The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Growing Up, Heart, Opportunity

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• Let us remember the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of recollection in order to make us abandon it. Let him then who omits mental prayer on account of distractions be persuaded that he gives delight to the devil.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Prayer, Giving, Devil

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• If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would come spend a weekend, a week, or a month in pleasure, under drugs perhaps, in order to disappear afterward, as if erased.

  Michel Foucault

  Weekend, People, Drug

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• What kind of person will I have to become in order to achieve all that I want?

  Tony Robbins

  Want, Kind, Achieve

  Tony Robbins (2007). “Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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