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• I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Believe, Destiny

  Address to joint session of Congress, 12 Mar. 1947

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• The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power.

  Richard V. Allen

  Team, Leader, President

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• Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.

  Charles Wheelan

  Successful, People, Interesting

  Charles Wheelan (2012). “10 1⁄2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

  E. M. Forster

  Art, Thinking, Echoes

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• Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.

  Jasper Fforde

  Mirrors, People, Literature

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• Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

  Gary Snyder

  Nature, Order, Kind

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.100, Counterpoint Press

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• It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth should chew your leg like a quid of tobacco. It breaks the routine of the thing, and putting other considerations aside, I am an orderly man and don't like that. This is by the way.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Men, Routine, Lions

  H. Rider Haggard (2012). “Allan Quatermain #1: King Solomon's Mines”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• ...Sometimes I dream that everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly, and I am here too, in front of it, hardly able to see for the flash and the brightness- and sometimes I am that madcap person clapping my hands and singing; and sometimes I am that quiet person down on my knees.

  Mary Oliver

  Dream, Hands, Singing

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan or a baronial mansion, methodically and exhaustively, one has to wreck it completely in the process.So, in a orderly and systematic fashion, Bowman set about reducing Czerda's caravan to a total ruin.

  Alistair Maclean

  Fashion, Wrecks, Systematic

  Alistair MacLean (1974). “Caravan to Vaccarès”

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• Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed, its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than of what were supposed to be the rules.

  William James

  Science, Dust, Voice

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• This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.

  David Bohm

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  David Bohm (2005). “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, p.16, Routledge

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• A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius.

  Chester Barnard

  Men, Vision, Genius

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• Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection outward of the confused inner life of men. In war, the sad tidy constructs we make to help us believe life is orderly and controllable are roughly thrown aside like the delusions they are. In war, love is outed as an insane, insupportable emotion, a kind of luxury emotion, because everywhere you look, someone beloved to someone is being slaughtered, by someone whose own beloved has been slaughtered, or will be, or could be.

  George Saunders

  Confused, War, Believe

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• Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Science, Parent

  Mark Twain (2003). “Tales of Wonder”, p.223, U of Nebraska Press

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• I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious ad hoc magic.

  Richard Dawkins

  Beautiful, Atheist, Believe

  Richard Dawkins (2000). “Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We must return immigration to a logical, orderly process where people fill out their applications and wait for approval. We must make sure illegal immigrants stop storming our borders. We must establiesh the correct criteria, such as our need for certain job skills or education, for granting the right to immigrate into the United States.

  Ross Perot

  Jobs, Skills, People

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• English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope abandon, lotuses writhe with poppies in the sweet warm beds, kumquats ripen, open and plop flatly to the floor-and outside, in a neat, trimly-hoed kitchen-garden, English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.

  Alan Coren

  Sweet, Flower, Passion

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• We believe that people should wait their time, and people should be able to be accepted here - over a million a year - in an orderly process, not a disorderly process, and that we should not be rewarding those who violate the law, and making even harder for those who try to comply with the law.

  Jeff Sessions

  Believe, Years, Law

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• The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Sleep, Passion

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• The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

  Gordon Allport

  Psychology, Becoming, Acquiring Knowledge

  Gordon Willard Allport (1955). “Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality”, p.23, Yale University Press

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• Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and more government largesse accompanied always by more government authority, less individual liberty, and ultimately, totalitarianism, always advanced as for our own good. The alternative is the dream conceived by our Founding Fathers, up to the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Father, Government

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly progress thwarted and obstructed by defendants brought before them charged with crimes.

  Hugo Black

  Country, Progress, Crime

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• Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Space, Looks

  Marcus Aurelius Antonius (2016). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.89, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

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• For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing.

  Sandra Dodd

  Order, Accepting, Questioning

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• We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Past, Progress, Firsts

  "The Future As History". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter IV, Part 6, The Inertia of History, p. 195, 1960.

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