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• Some people receive medication in order to properly deliver films.

  Colin Hanks

  People, Film, Medication

  "Colin Hanks and John Stalberg Talk HIGH SCHOOL, Stoner Comedies, Directing and Comparing Filmmaking to Parenthood". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 29, 2012.

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• After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.

  John Lennon

  Should Have, Views, Enemy

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Once the country was settled and built, the bosses changed the order from a stack of educated workers to a barrel of minimum wage lottery dreamers.

  Lenny Bruce

  Country, Boss, Dreamer

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• As far as executing work is concerned, you do it all in order. You do it in contractual order. There's no overlap, it's just continuation of your ordinary work. You move from one project into another.

  William Monahan

  Moving, Ordinary, Projects

  Source: collider.com

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• In order for any smartphone manufacturer to decrypt the data on your phone, it has to hold onto a secret that lets it get that access. And that secret or that database of secrets becomes an extremely valuable and useful target for intelligence agencies.

  Matt Blaze

  Agency, Phones, Data

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Vengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own veils of self-deceit, Mother perceives in herself untold abysses of cruelty as subtle as it is refined.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Children, Rip

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• Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

  Hermann Hesse

  Demand, Chaos

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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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• I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.

  Desmond Tutu

  Substitutes, Tyranny

  1998 In The Irish Times,'This Week They Said', 31 Oct.

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• I can officially state that my government and myself believe that all over Europe we need to open a debate on the 'drug question' in order to create more coherent and human policies with better perspectives. . . . The policy of criminalizing consumers has failed, creating many problems to our society.

  George Papandreou

  Believe, Government, Europe

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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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• The economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that our people need to be re-educated into the importance of controlling the economy of the community in which we live, which means that we won't have to constantly be involved in picketing and boycotting other people in other communities in order to get jobs.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, Philosophy, Mean

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• I've always been very chauvinistic, even in my boy-obsessed days. But I was always a gentleman. I alwaysd treated my boys like real ladies. Always escorted them properly and, in fact, I suppose if I were a lot older - like 40 or 50 - I'd be a wonderful sugar daddy to some little queen down in Kensington. I'd have a houseboy named Richard to order around.

  David Bowie

  Queens, Real, Boys

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• Love knows nothing of order.

  St. Jerome

  Knows

  St. Jerome “The Principal Works of St. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

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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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• My only hesitation after Law & Order was that I didn't want to be in a super dry procedural like that. I found that satisfying, but very tough because every episode was kind of the same. It just is with that show.

  Jamie Bamber

  Law, Dry, Want

  "Jamie Bamber Talks MONDAY MORNINGS, Working with David E. Kelley & Dr. Sanjay Gupta, His Thoughts on the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Finale, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 8, 2013.

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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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• Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.

  David Mamet

  Dad, Home, School

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• In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

  Bill Gates

  Long, United States, Sputnik

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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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• The higher orders [of angels] are presumed to be closer in their nature to God and to function in roles that serve God more directly than the lower orders, which tend to the administration of the physical universe and the service of humankind. Some orders are associated with particular divine qualities - Seraphim with Love, Cherubim with Wisdom, Thrones with Judgment.

  David Connolly

  Angel, Quality, Thrones

  David Connolly (1993). “In Search of Angels: A Celestial Sourcebook for Beginning Your Journey”, Perigee

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