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• Literary success of any enduring kind is made by refusing to do what publishers want, by refusing to write what the public wants, by refusing to accept any popular standard, by refusing to write anything to order.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Writing, Want, Kind

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• He who searches for Divine Reality with all his heart and soul and finds it, becomes aware that, before he began to seek God, God was seeking him, in order to draw him into the joy of fellowship with Him, into the peace of His Presence.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Heart, Reality, Joy

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• In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Righteous Man, Evil

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.

  Mother Teresa

  Giving Up, Christ, Poor

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• As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  People, Creative, Want

  "Bad press: a new play gives journalists a voice" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Decree, Obeying

  "Non-Violent Resistance". Book by Mahatma Gandhi, Courier Corporation, p. 238, 2012.

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• Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan longer than what can be endured in order to continue cyclical consumption.

  Peter Joseph

  Consumption

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• He who embraces the cross and bears it with patience lightens the weight of the cross. Indeed, the weight itself becomes a consolation; for God abounds with grace to all those who carry the cross with good will in order to please him.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Grace, Weight, Bears

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• First there must be order and harmony within your own mind.

  Confucius

  Mind, Firsts, Harmony

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• Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable in the vastness of cosmic processes; if there is no superhuman purpose, and no hope of ultimate salvation, it is better to know and acknowledge this truth than to endeavor, in futile self-assertion, to order the universe to be what we find comfortable.

  Bertrand Russell

  Self, Desire, Vastness

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• There is no getting around the fundamental fact that we need to interact with everything in order to manifest the wholeness we are born with.

  Mark Nepo

  Facts, Needs, Fundamentals

  FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from Mar 27, 2015

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• This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism.

  Immanuel Kant

  Struggle, Men, Giving

  Immanuel Kant (1983). “Perpetual Peace and Other Essays: on Politics, History, and Morals”, p.45, Hackett Publishing

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• The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Teacher, School, Caring

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.30, New Society Publishers

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• I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.

  Freida Pinto

  Sleep, Coats, Rooms

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• When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.

  Freida Pinto

  Somewhere Else, Doctors, Justice

  "Freida Pinto: The Goddess". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• In brief, the goal of sexual suppression is that of producing an individual who is adjusted to the authoritarian order and who will submit to it in spite of all misery and degradation. . . The formation of the authoritarian structure takes place through the anchoring of sexual inhibition and sexual anxiety.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Goal, Anxiety, Degradation

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• A photographer who does not know how to translate his feelings and ideas into a graphically satisfactory form is bound to produce ineffective photographs, no matter how idealistic, compassionate, sensitive or imaginative he may be. For in order to be considered good, a photograph must not only say something worthwhile, it must say it well.

  Andreas Feininger

  Ideas, Feelings, Doe

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• It seemed to me that one should make an effort to banish artificial classifications from chemistry and begin to assign to each element the place it must occupy in the natural order by comparing it in succession to others.

  Andre-Marie Ampere

  Effort, Elements, Chemistry

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• But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.

  Suzanne Vega

  Song, Writing, Safe

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• The gospel is not about... pie-in-the-sky when they die. ... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the biblical Jesus was committed to the realization of a new social order in this world.... Becoming a Christian, therefore, is a call to social action.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Jesus, Biblical

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• As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in order to capture that reality, they go to dangerous and tragic places at the expense of their lives. I see them as the conscience of our humanity; they represent for me what is left of our humanity.

  Alfredo Jaar

  Reality, Humanity, World

  Interview, brooklynrail.org. April 6, 2009.

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• Although I am not a climatologist, it has been interesting to observe climatology from the point of view of an arctic scientist. In order for the field of climatology and IPCC to be healthy, I want to provide a few criticisms, which I hope are constructive."

  Syun-Ichi Akasofu

  Views, Interesting, Healthy

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• The Lord said that He was giving us a new president who is better than we deserve. He represents a reprieve from a New World Order that the Church is not prepared to face at this time.

  Paul Cain

  Giving, Church, President

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• We have been discussing sin and the carnal nature from which disciples are getting free. However, we cannot get free by our own strength from these things. It takes our will to want to get free in order to please the Lord and be delivered from what is bringing so much death upon the world. However, we need God's grace and His power to live free of these things.

  Rick Joyner

  Grace, Needs, World

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• What is about to come upon the earth is not just a revival, or another awakening, it is a veritable revolution. The vision was given in order to begin to awaken those who are destined to radically change the course, and even the very definition of Christianity.

  Rick Joyner

  Vision, Earth, Definitions

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