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• In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

  Noam Chomsky

  Blow, Violence, Atrocities

  "Now it's a free for all". www.theguardian.com. May 16, 1999.

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• By the grace of AEC, BNL, God, Green and Hayworth (alphabetical order), we should see neutrinos.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Grace, Green, Neutrinos

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• The concept of freedom in Scripture differs from modern notions. Freedom is not a life lived free of restraints but a life that recognizes healthy limits, those that are concern to produce prosperity and order for the person who observes them.

  Max Anders

  Healthy, Limits, Scripture

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• People sometimes punish to exact judgment for past actions. God disciplines in order to teach and always in the interest of those whom he disciplines.

  Max Anders

  Past, Discipline, People

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• The key question in order to change you is not 'What would Jesus do?' but "What has Jesus done for you?"

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Keys, Done

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• Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Encouragement, Nice, Helping

  Twitter post from Jul 27, 2015

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• God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual "fix" for the day.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Spiritual, Fortune Cookie, Promise

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• Your generosity is reflected in what you do with your own money, not in what you do with other people's money. If I give a lot of money to charity, then I am generous. If you give a smaller fraction of your money to charity, then you are less generous. But if you want to tax me in order to give my money to charity, that does not make you generous.

  Arnold Kling

  Generosity, Giving, People

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• It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him. ... The model will serve equally for a Rembrandt drawing or for anybody's magazine cover. A genius is one who can see. The others can often 'draw' remarkably well. ... Those who get their technique first, expecting sight to come to them later, get a technique of a very ready-made order.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Sight, Drawing

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• What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else, in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Winning, Law

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• One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.

  Thomas Sowell

  Movement, Economy

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• Liberals fostered the subsidies that have converted so many citizens to helplessness. They have made high taxes and big government a way of life. They have corrupted the politicians into believing that in order to be elected to office, they must dispense benefits.

  James Cook

  Believe, Government, Office

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• The market steers the capitalistic economy. It directs each individual's activities into those channels in which he best serves the wants of his fellow-men. The market alone puts the whole social system of private ownership of the means of production and free enterprise in order and provides it with sense and meaning.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Men, Fellow Man

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Cancer, Backbone, Civilized

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• In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.....A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves into that environment, they begin their creative day.

  Twyla Tharp

  People, Creative, Preparation

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• The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.

  Richard Wagner

  Heart, Long, Sound

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• The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

  Hisham Matar

  Reading, Writing, Three

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• In order to WIN the game, you must first not LOSE it.

  Chuck Noll

  Winning, Games, Firsts

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• Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Chaos

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• Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Kind, Happenings

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• My partners... taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.

  Kevin O'Leary

  People, Pairs, Taught

  Kevin O'Leary (2011). “Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life”, p.11, Doubleday Canada

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• The president has outlined a new strategy for success in Iraq, but in order for this effort to be successful the Iraqi government must be held accountable. ... If we fail in Iraq, or withdraw our troops prematurely, the terrorists will follow us home. Success is our only option.

  John Boehner

  Home, Successful, Government

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• Trials are sent to some so as to take away past sins, to others so as to eradicate sins now being committed, and to yet others so as to forestall sins which may be committed in the future. These are distinct from the trials that arise in order to test men in the way that Job was tested.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Jobs, Men, Past

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• Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness.

  Dusty Springfield

  People, Sometimes

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