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“In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.”
Edward Hoagland
“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.”
Confucius
“In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.”
George Clemenceau
“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.”
Edward de Bono
“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
George Orwell
“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
“Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song? The guy who wrote that song wrote everything.”
Stephen Wright
“The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.”
Joe Girard
“The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
