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The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
Henry Miller

Pain, Mind, Him

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Edward de Bono

Different, Creativity, Breaking

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Ourselves, Forfeit

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Immanuel Kant

Knowledge, Belief, Room

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.
Kim Kardashian

Girl, Rumors, Intimate

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Enjoy, Pretty, Why

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
Marquis de Sade

Ourselves, Virtue, Vice

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
Samuel Butler

Money, Enemy, Long

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

Mind, Learn, Less

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
John Ruskin

Success, Work, Happy

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
Francis of Assisi

Him, Give, Against

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
James Madison

Science, Mind, Cannot

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
John Milton

Confusion, Light, Darkness

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana

Confusion, Minds, Chaos

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle

Become, Master, Politician

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
Elayne Boosler

Peace, History, Car

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Chinua Achebe

Art, Reality, Him

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis

Work, Impossible, Improve

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Against, Believing, Survive

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

Men, Truth, May

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
B. R. Ambedkar

Liberty, Social, Rights

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Virginia Woolf

Power, Creative, Whole

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
Carl Sandburg

At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.
Nick Cave

Today, Focus, Problem

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
Francis of Assisi

Sun, Poverty, Name

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.
Lindsay Wagner

Pain, True, Healing

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
Madeleine Albright

Successful, Yourself, Person

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
William Hazlitt

There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.
Muammar al-Gaddafi

Life, End, Woman

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
John Calvin

Joy, Suffering, Completion

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