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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

George Bernard Shaw

Law is order, and good law is good order.

Aristotle

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Aristotle

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Rene Descartes

In order to write about life, first you must live it!

Ernest Hemingway

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Benjamin Disraeli

We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.

John F. Kennedy

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Douglas Adams

One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.

George Washington

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

M. C. Escher

The more laws and order are made prominent,The more thieves and robbers there will be.

Lao tzu

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

William Shakespeare

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Hannah Arendt

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

Ernest Hemingway

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

Seneca

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Herodotus

We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.

Stephen Hawking

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Michel de Montaigne

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Edmund Burke

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.

Alfred North Whitehead

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

Les Brown

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Robert Byrne

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

Will Durant

Anything that happens, happens. Anthing that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.

Douglas Adams

Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your 15th and 35th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited.

Douglas Adams

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Niccolo Machiavelli

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Woodrow Wilson

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

Thomas Henry Huxley

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

G. K. Chesterton

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

Thomas Henry Huxley

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Albert Camus

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Albert Camus

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

Jean Anouilh

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Albert Camus

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

H. Norman Schwarzkopf

I thought she did a great job. It's too bad that we didn't hang onto the ball in that (fifth) inning. ... In order to be competitive against teams like State College, we have to play defense.

Greg Evans

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

John Adams

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

Margaret Cho

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

Dolly Parton

In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

Joseph Joubert

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Samuel Johnson

A motion to adjourn is always in order.

Robert A. Heinlein

In order to ensure that the team will have the appropriate time to prepare for the 2006 season.

Don Garber

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

Order, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

Bertrand Russell

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

In order for us to maintain a leadership position worldwide, we're going to need additional financing, ... It will all come down to what we want to do overseas.

Joe Ricketts

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

Katherine Paterson

Throwing sand into the wheels of deeper international economic integration in order to reduce adjustment costs, as contemplated by some, is not an attractive option.

Joaquin Almunia

The sense of guilt implies in some vague outline the ideas of a broken moral order and an offended God.

William Cunningham

This government plays the card of confrontation in order to make people forget its arrogance and incompetence.

Segolene Royal

Order is repetition of units.Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.

M.c. Escher

With this order, JetBlue demonstrates that with the right people, the right product and the right cost structure, airlines can grow, even in this current, challenging environment.

Noel Forgeard

It was silent in the courtroom (after the order). Everybody was shocked. I don't know what the judge was thinking.

Don Topp

We realize that we are definitely a target for them, and that puts our kids on the defensive a little bit, ... We're aware. We're alert. But we have goals of our own, and in order to meet them we have to find a way to win no matter who we're playing.

Joe Thompson

Focus debt payments on the credit card, then the car, and then the student loans -- always pay your loans in interest rate order, not in order of balance size.

Doug Flynn

What happens if the governor is incapacitated? Isn't it easier if you don't have to ask the governor to sign an executive order every time you need one?

Peter Harvey

The profound changes that will need to take place in order to appeal to seniors is astounding.

Ken Harris

That was an extremely difficult obstacle to overcome in order to prosecute a violation.

Ray Jones

Do I support it? Well I believe in bringing issues to a head I believe in tackling issues and tackling them head on and in order to do that sometimes you have to you know bring attention to the matter and sometimes that's the best way to do it.

Gus Garcia

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Orson Welles

Annette is another steady player who gives us depth in the middle of our singles order.

Steve Borden

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Sydney Smith

He's been super (with) the bat. Just dynamite. He's been real key for us to solidify the middle of that order.

Pat Murphy

The beach is supposed to be open. That's why we're looking into it. It seems as though they may be in contradiction of the Supreme Court order.

R. Hamisi Ingram

[ordering drinks] Lambeau: Perrier. Sean: That's French for "club soda."

Good Will Hunting

My office is a mess. I hate filing, so papers and journals and books just pile up. If Jay can keep order in a cell, I figure he could help me organize my office.

Frankie Bailey

Things are always best seen when they are a trifle mixed-up, a trifle disordered; the chilly administrative neatness of museums and filing cases, of statistics and cemeteries, is an inhuman and antinatural kind of order; it is, in a word, disorder.

Camilo Jose Cela

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Georges Jacques Danton

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

The pace and in some cases the nature of changes happening in society are occurring so rapidly that even our best efforts at incremental change leave us running in order to standstill.

Lord Puttnam

To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.

Robert E. Lee

In order to make deals you have to create some excess. Some guys have options, some don't.

Bill Bavasi

In the '80s, a fitness center was a must-have in order for a hotel to be successful. Today it's a spa.

Lynne Walker Mcnees

I left Law and Order because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.

Angie Harmon

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Mary Tyler Moore

India needs more capacity and they need it quickly in order to keep up with this tremendous growth.

Paul Hanrahan

After all, you have to take gum out in order to eat.

Cathy Nonas

There is no need for panic over the court order as it clearly aims at major violations.

Ajay Maken

There is a defined movement in industry to integrate dissimilar scientific fields in order to produce novel next-generation products.

Nick Hammond

The best thing to do if you're going to be ordering all night is to leave a big tip right off the bat. That's going to catch my eye and get me to remember you.

Rob Lorenc

Most of the time, '24' is not about Jack Bauer commanding a squad in order to complete the mission; it's about Jack Bauer in solo action, ... So including multiplayer didn't make a lot of sense to us.

Tim Hall

Claridge's is elegant but determinedly unglamorous. The only fantasy it has to offer is the illusion that the world is in good working order.

Holly Brubach

The higher order of logic and understanding that is capable of meaningfully reflecting the soul comes from the heart.

Gary Zukav

In order to get Marty out of jail we had to get something that no other person or no other attorney had here. I had to give the attorney the murderer.

Jay Salpeter

In our last couple of games, we've just been a bit sloppier than what our game is and we've given up way too many goals. We've got to get back to doing what we do and that's winning the defensive battles. In the last couple of games, we've been losing those and everybody in our room knows it. That's where well have to start in order to get better.

Jarome Iginla

In Scripture we have found peace and order in our home and our family, and that's of course what we want for these families, ... Peace and harmony and love in a home is a good thing.

James Wallace

We are committed to continuous investment in Thailand in order to build the domestic market and exports.

Anat Julintorn

To employ the coercive apparatus of the state in order to maintain manifestly unjust institutions is itself a form of illegitimate force that men in due course have a right to resist.

John Rawls

We have raised minimum investment levels in order to attract bigger investors and boost total investments.

Lakshman Watawala

She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

Toni Morrison

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.

John Perry Barlow

Basically the meters were getting so old that they weren't selling any parts necessary for upgrading. We could have either kept replacing the old meters or order the new pay machines.

Robert Hendry

This started to change during the last quarter as domestic order intake showed a noticeable improvement driven by low inventory levels as well as a general increase in the demand for steel.

Davinder Chugh

When legal opinions diverge, as they have here, legislative clarification is essential in order for school districts to move ahead operating on a level playing field. We'd just like to know what the rules are.

John O'sullivan

We did things out of our formation. So, in a way, this was a good loss in order for us to learn from this loss.

Richard Grenier

I was very pleased. We hit a little bit better than I had anticipated. From the top of the order to the bottom, we were well-rounded and consistent.

Ann Munzenmaier

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.

Conrad Veidt

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Gary Zukav

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Jean Genet

I am a citizen of the world. Some of my best friends are black, including those I had from childhood. The fact that I made a joke in order to motivate a player has nothing to do with being racist. I'm not a racist.

Luis Aragones

The number of victims in Colombia is climbing because illegal armed groups continue to plant mines in order to protect their illicit crops.

Luz Piedad Herrera

I would say that the city, state and national government just turned their backs on us because we didn't get anything to eat or drink, there was no law and order, and no plan.

John Brunious

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

William Hazlitt

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Voltaire

The White House is a study in uncontrolled chaos. Screaming matches are the order of the day.

George Harleigh

All of the possessions were big. It wasn't one possession that won or lost the game. Down the stretch we needed to make plays in order to win.

Shantia Grace

Our sales growth in the first quarter was driven by strong order momentum across our product lines.

Gideon Argov

It provides incentives to anyone who wants to hurt someone by accusing them of being gay in order to get rid of them.

C. Dixon Osburn

We think that this new order reflects the rapid growth in the Indian market, most of which is captured by low-cost carriers.

Ajay Singh

The order backlog is very strong, particularly in North America and Europe.

Christian Schindler

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Henry Brooks Adams

I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

Venus Williams

Action, Ability and Awareness (in that order) the 3 keys to success.

Joshua Estrin

An irresponsible use of the public airwaves, as well as a call for the Bush administration to violate the executive order banning assassination.

David Brock

The Queen Tamale herself cam in and asked to order some things.

Donna Hudson

The first order of business was getting the rights cleaned up. So, we went through expedited arbitration ... Four and a half years, and my entire retirement [fund] later, we got all the rights back clean and clear.

Joe Camp

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

Warren E. Burger

They have brought their own equipment in order to complete their job and that, they have assured me, is something they know about.

Prakash Shah

In order for us to transfer a call, we would have to make it a 505, then the airport call in this particular case.

Trish Hoffman

Though Gray Davis now apparently has finally taken my advice of last week and issued the executive order, his delay here -- as it has been in so many areas as the energy crisis and the budget crisis -- is absolutely shameful and intolerable.

Bill Simon

We accept interest rates may rise in order to maintain the low-inflation stability which is essential for business.

Ruth Lea

We got a bond he could easily make, and he's out and there's no court order protecting the kids.

Dave Warren

Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit by its abstract utility.

Legal Maxim

They're not going to let that happen again. In order to get back at the administration, they're going to try to undermine the policy with constant gloom and doom and negative news.

Cliff Kincaid

Since the order books at Boeing are bulging at the moment, with many of those orders coming from abroad, aircraft exports could continue to be a big positive for the trade deficit for some time to come.

Paul Ashworth

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Paul Valery

There's no pressure when you have a lot of good players like I do now. Pressure was last year when we didn't have enough talent in order to compete.

Ted Cottrell

The West is incredibly competitive. We'll see who comes out of the gates. We'll need to really step up in order to be competitive in the West Region. They're working hard to get there, and I'm excited about it.

Kathy Dais

That was our first, really, true, wholesale many-piece order.

Deb Krevolin

I'm not obsessed with how I look I just need to be really fit in order to dance.

Michael Flatley

In order to love somebody else, you have to love yourself.

Josh Holman

There's a lot happening. Democracy is today's world order. Everybody's talking democracy in the region and the world. And they will have to give us free, fair elections and democracy.

Ali Zardari

We know we already have great parent involvement in Ralston. With the benchmarks and standards, we want to codify things and put some of our goals into a clearly defined order so we can see what we are accomplishing.

Linda Richards

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

Antonin Scalia

This is not a done deal, we are examining some parts of the order that may merit rehearing, ... We are encouraged by FERC's decision, but we are looking at some of the limitations in the order.

Charles Robinson

I think that in order to survive, there's this concept of having bulletproof skin.

Gavin Rossdale

Expecting job growth on the order of about 150,000 in December, financial markets were taken aback, to say the least, when those figures came in at only a thousand new jobs.

Amy Crews Cutts

The issues they raise have already been adjudicated before the commission. The order should be affirmed.

Steve Brash

The accomplishment of this objective demands a high degree of responsibility and a balanced approach in order to maintain the effectiveness of measures aimed at establishing constitutional order in the Chechen Republic and normalizing the regional situation.

Nikolai Patrushev

The internalization of order flow is essentially a kind of bulge-bracket dark book that allows order matching to occur at the NBBO.

Robert Shapiro

This is a very tall, big order for us. It's a stretch for us.

Russell Rasco

In order to serve our constituents, we have a standard policy of setting up an appointment. We had no idea you were coming.

Brad Hahn

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

Johannes Kepler

If you're in a car crash or some other traumatic event, in order to come to grips with it, you have to look at the facts, at what actually happened. Then you can understand it and move on.

Michael Cascio

He's not a nine-hole hitter. He hits ninth in our order, but we don't consider him to be the ninth-best player on the team. His job is to get on base. Everything else is a bonus.

Jeff Blankenship

We're just as good as they are. They should be looking at us and thinking they need to beat us in order to be a championship team.

Kristen Kovesdy

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

Orson Scott Card

We don't know if the order exists in written form. It is his order that started the ball rolling on this illegal detention.

Andrew Patel

We have to go out to see what others are doing in order to bring new things back here. We try to give back to our communities.

Jeff Montgomery

Kurdish politicians have no present intentions to gain independence. But we need self-determination in order to decide our future in case troubles erupt in Iraq in the future.

Mullah Bakhtiyar

One through nine in the order we continue to pound the ball.

Phil Hayes

Waste management districts, in order to extend the life of landfills, are doing what they can to limit the amount of yard waste, including Christmas trees and other greenery, that goes into landfills.

Joe Heimlich

I have enormous interest on this lot. This may blow you away. I have triple order bids of $10,000 on this lot.

Cathy Elkies

Broadcasters are focused on improving programming in these areas in order to drive advertising revenue growth.

James Peters

If that fails, they should politely ask the girl to remove the glasses in order to get a view of her true appearance.

Neil Sedlak

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.

John Gotti

We did not lose today. We got beat. We're obviously disappointed. This was a difficult game, and the Chiefs did everything they needed to in order to win.

Marty Schottenheimer

I just don't know who can compete with Pfizer -- it's a pretty tall order.

Tom Burnett

The markets that we are in have not been kind. There is over-capacity in UK magazines, mail order and broadcast brochures.

Brian Edwards

It's not clear it's going to work in human embryos. And in order to determine that we'll have to actually do the research on human embryos and likely destroy some in the process.

Dr George Daley

We understand the reasons why the Egyptian government would like to modernize its defense forces in order to take care of its security interests.

Moshe Arens

There's our customer service and we make our flowers fresh. We make the flowers up as we get the orders and do not sell them as we have them. We don't make it until you order it. This makes the flowers fresher and last longer.

Sandy Prince

After 38 years, we are leaving Gaza in order to enable the Palestinians to run their own lives...Now it is their turn to show they can run a normal life, a normal economy, have a new beginning.

Gideon Meir

In order to achieve our objective of winning races and world championships we have to employ the best drivers available and Gary definitely fits into this category.

Martin Whitmarsh

It's regretful that we had to go down this road, but in order to ensure the safety and protection of this community it's necessary.

Chuck Smith

We estimate that Oracle will have to cut Siebel's operating costs by approximately... $350m to $400m in order to meet its previously stated accretion goals.

Robert Stimson

We are still very cautious because not knowing why someone would do something like this, caution is in order.

Nora Daludado

He has a criminal history in Atlanta for failure to appear. That shows his propensity not to comply with a court order.

Lorrain Croy

We have made an exception, that in case of an emergency, the mayor may sign off on the purchase order.

Katina Whitledge

We need an order from this court to order the Rwandan Government to allow her to come and testify.

Jonathan Kirk

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

We wanted the team concept in order to initiate discussion and dialogue between the kids. The concept was really to get the kids to talk about this.

Sandra Malone

The future arrives too soon and in the wrong order.

Alvin Toffler

There's a lot of concern about the amount of data that firms would have to retain in order to comply.

David Shillman

NBC and advertisers would ideally like to have maximum momentum moving into the Olympics in order to promote them.

John Rash

The cost of our products is going to have to go up in order for us to stay in business.

Jack Moore

The troops don't know what to do. They don't have the direction they need in order to supervise the prisoners.

John Murtha

If everything is in order, they schedule a public hearing, people appear for or against the measure, and then it's a vote of the people.

Tom Ryan

They (the supplier) are getting a better order. To the degree that you don't have an inventory build-up...everybody benefits.

Gene Glazer

It's always better from that standpoint. For us, we have to work harder to come up to the standards. But in order to get something, we must give something.

Shirley Brown

We need a healthy oil business in order to move to a healthy gas business. We view oil and gas as one package and the agreement reached with the governor is finely balanced.

Daren Beaudo

They weren't mail order buyers.

Barry Silverman

We are gathering all of the information that they need to have, and we hope to finalize the meetings of the major leagues [that finish Monday in New York] in order to give them all of the details.

Stan Javier

It's a huge showcase, but it's also a huge occasion for ordering.

Tom James

We would likely make a motion on Monday (for approval), assuming we?re satisfied with the criteria. Then there would be a 30-day opportunity for public input, and a final order.

David Lewin

We're very grateful for all those who did whatever they could in order to bring Cuba into the Classic. We are here playing, first of all, as Cubans, but we're representing Latin America here, and we'll do everything possible so that we can ... win on behalf of Latin America. We all deserve it.

Ariel Pestano

We learned two things from Katrina, ... One, when government orders an evacuation, it must provide a means for all persons to evacuate and two, you have to provide a shelter with an adequate means to maintain order, hygiene, food and most of all, dignity.

John Flint

Mice come and they go. They may have been trapped and cleaned up. It would not be unusual to not catch one, the way they run. In order for me to identify a source, we would actually have to capture a mouse.

Don Shields

I was surprised, because I was assuming that either the no-limit would raise conversion so high that it would win, or that just keeping the threshold high, which would keep the average order value high, would win. I didn't expect the middle.

Brian Platter

Our fans are getting their lives back in order, trying to do things with their homes. This has just been a major catastrophe.

Willis Reed

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

Richard Shelby

Durable goods order tends to be a more prominent leading indicator. I expect a weaker number, so I am bullish on Treasuries.

Akira Takei

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.

John Hope Franklin