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"The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side." »Vincent Canby, The New York Times, November 11, 1984
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"I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong." »Elizabeth II
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"The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce." »Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
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"An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service." »E.B. White
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"Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter." »Joseph Addison
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"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising." »J. Todd
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"service without selfness, is not service" »Samuel A. Lucero
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"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism." »Robert Hutchins
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"Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success." »Edward Dowden
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"Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression." »Amos Bronson Alcott
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"Knowledge is destroyed by associating with the base; with equals equality is gained, and with the distinguished, distinction." »The Hitopadesa
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"Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want." »Margaret Young
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"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want." »Margaret Young
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"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn." »Henry David Thoreau
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"They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"Here is the biggest truth about the Universal Order: There is no order!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If we have need of a strong will in order to do good, it is still more necessary for us in order not to do evil." »Mole
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"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess." »Mark Twain
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"Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary." »Peter Minard
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"It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new." »Machiavelli
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"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. "If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence."" »J.W.N. Sullivan
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"It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order." »Douglas Hostadter
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"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control." »Barbara DeAngelis
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"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire." »Ernest Hemingway
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"Ace The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing" »Casino
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"Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos." »Archbishop Ireland
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