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• There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.

  Bryan Cranston

  Needs, Roles, Attention

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• I'm not crazy about being out of control, and I get emotional when things are unclean. When things are out of order. When things are messy. Because I lived in a mess as a child.

  Bryan Cranston

  Children, Crazy, Emotional

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• Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Fixed, Preserves

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• The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Fighting, Organization, Brain

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• The essence of positioning is sacrifice. You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.

  Al Ries

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Unique

  Al Ries, Jack Trout (2001). “Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Thinking, Telephones, Lists

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• In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Expanding Universe, Differences, Entropy

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Blue Mars”, p.480, Spectra

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• I have learned a new form of service from the wars of Frederick, king of Prussia. It is not necessary to approach the enemy in order to attack him. In fleeing from him, it is possible to circumvent him as he advances and fall on him from the rear and force him to surrender. What is needed is not to strike straight at evil but to withdraw to the sources of divine power, and from there to circle around evil, bend it and transform it into its opposite.

  Martin Buber

  Kings, War, Fall

  Martin Buber (2002). “Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings”, p.71, Psychology Press

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• As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries in opposition, and have remained revolutionaries in power. To make the individual sacred we must destroy the social order which crucifies him. And this problem can only be solved by blood and iron.

  Leon Trotsky

  Men, Blood, Iron

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• Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.

  William Kristol

  Country, Iraq, World

  "A conversation with Lawrence Kaplan and Bill Kristol on Iraq". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. February 24, 2003.

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• I would say that what's been mobilized to this point - something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required.

  Eric Shinseki

  Soldier, Would Be, Hundred

  "Vets Affairs Pick Known For Contradicting Rumsfeld". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. January 13, 2009.

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• Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Law, Liberty, Chaos

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• The old order changes yielding place to new.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

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• Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Mean, Sacrifice

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• In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.

  Paulo Freire

  Opportunity, Generosity, Injustice

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.44, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• There is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him by the natural world. They are the expression of a natural world order.

  Max Planck

  Real, Independent, Men

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• When people don't understand that being uncomfortable is part of the process of achievement, they use the discomfort as a reason not to do. They don't get what they want. We must learn to tolerate discomfort in order to grow.

  Peter McWilliams

  People, Achievement, Use

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Gays seem to be at the bottom of the pecking order: no matter how far down the pecking order another group is, its members still feel superior to and have no problem picking on gays.

  Peter McWilliams

  Gay, Groups, Matter

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

  Lady Gaga

  Thinking, People, Doe

  Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 13, 2011.

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• We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, War, Winning

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• There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to change the world, you have to take care of yourself first. You have to survive yourself.

  John Lennon

  Thinking, World, Care

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• In order to make a success of old age, one must begin it earlier, and not try to postpone it as long as possible. In the middle of life we must stop to think, to organize our existence with an eye to a still distant future, instead of allowing ourselves to be entirely sucked into the professional and social whirl. It is then that it is important to give place little by little to less external activities, less technical and more cultural, which will survive the moment of retirement.

  Paul Tournier

  Retirement, Eye, Thinking

  Paul Tournier (2012). “Learn to Grow Old”, p.12, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Christian faith does not involve repressing one's anxiety in order to appear strong. On the contrary, it means recognizing one's weakness, accepting the inward truth about oneself, confessing one's anxiety, and still to believe, that is to say that the Christian puts his trust not in his own strength, but in the grace of God.

  Paul Tournier

  Christian, Strong, Believe

  Paul Tournier (2012). “Learn to Grow Old”, p.222, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don't have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter's] education in order for her to thrive in the world.

  Viola Davis

  Daughter, Knowing, Parent

  "EXCLUSIVE: Viola Davis Says Education Saved Her Life, Talks Won't Back Down Impact". Interview with Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. September 27, 2012.

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• The idea that guys should walk into a bar and confidently initiate contact and then seduce a woman based on a short term conversation is a toxic cultural myth that robs guys of self-confidence and that holds them up to an unrealistic standard that they have to become a super-extraverted narcissist in order to 'score with women'

  Tucker Max

  Self Confidence, Ideas, Guy

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