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• Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Race, Should Have, Development

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• What does it mean to be a Saint? In the Lord's Church, the members are Latter-day Saints, and they attempt to emulate the Savior, follow His teachings, and receive saving ordinances in order to live in the celestial kingdom with God the Father and our Savior Jesus Christ.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Jesus, Father, Teaching

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• You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.

  Henry Cloud

  Want, Might, Able

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• In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.

  Wasif Ali Wasif

  Slavery, Our Time, Labour

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• There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close.

  Louise Erdrich

  Design

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• Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. The attraction of this way of writing is that it is easy.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Long, Together

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In order to maintain a friendship, do not avoid confrontation, but rather, embrace it.

  Christopher Jones

  Embrace, Confrontation

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• The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individuals of a special race.

  Grover Cleveland

  Race, People, Adoption

  Grover Cleveland (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child through his punishment, a parent must religiously refrain from punishing him while angry.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Children, Views, Punishment

  Henry Clay Trumbull (1893). “Hints on Child-training”

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• So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Believe, Long, Moral

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• Family councils, led by righteous, loving parents who are striving to teach their children to love and respect each other, can make a difference in creating a sense of discipline, order and loving cooperation in the home.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Children, Home, Differences

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• There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.

  H. G. Wells

  Believe, Men, Favour

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• Learn to let others do their share of the work. Things may be done less well, but you will have more peace of soul and health of body. And what temporal interest should we not sacrifice in order to gain these blessings?

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Sacrifice, Blessing, Soul

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• Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain grace to become all that we ought to be.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Humble, Grace, Despair

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• Every living being longs always to be happy, untainted by sorrow; and everyone has the greatest love for himself, which is solely due to the fact that happiness is his real nature. Hence, in order to realize that inherent and untainted happiness, which indeed he daily experiences when the mind is subdued in deep sleep, it is essential that he should know himself. For obtaining such knowledge the inquiry 'Who am I?' in quest of the Self is the best means.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Mean, Sleep

  Sri Ramana Maharshi (2016). “Words of Grace”, p.5, Sai ePublications

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• We need to remember the purpose of our service to one another. If it were only to accomplish some part of His work, God could dispatch 'legions of angels.' . . . But that would not achieve the purpose of the service He has prescribed. We serve God and our fellowmen in order to become the kind of children who can return to live with our heavenly parents.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Children, Angel, Parent

  "I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go" by Dallin H. Oaks, www.lds.org. October 2002.

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• Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Islands, Sea, Coherence

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• In order to experience the Ultimate Reality you have to be out of your mind.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Reality, Mind, Ultimate

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• You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

  Anthony de Mello

  Add

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.78, Image

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• On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes.

  Molly Ivins

  Taxes, Offshore, Whole

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• The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Rain, Struggle, Mean

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1905). “The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy: Walk in the light while ye have light; Thoughts and aphorisims; Letters; Miscellanies”

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• Sometimes you need to ease off in order to go faster

  Jackie Stewart

  Needs, Ease, Sometimes

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• Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe

  Saint Augustine

  Believe

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• Behavior runs in deep channels that were cut during early childhood, and it is very difficult to alter them. In order to change a deeply ingrained pattern, you have to build a sturdy dam, dig another canal and reroute the river in the new direction. That effort is rarely successful over the long haul.

  James Dobson

  Running, Cutting, Successful

  James C. Dobson (1995). “Life on the Edge”, W Publishing Group

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• In ascending order the qualities of Patriotism are: 1. To work, fight, or die for your own survival. 2. To work, fight, or die for your immediate family. 3. To work, fight, or die for a group, extended family, tribe, or clan. 4. To work, fight, or die for a group too large for all the individuals to know each other. 5. To work, fight, or die for a way of life.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fighting, Survival, Quality

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