"The desire for order is the only order in the world."

-- Georges Duhamel

#Order Quotes #Desire Quotes #World Quotes

“Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.”
“Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.”

Source : Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: Grim Lands”, p.26, Del Rey
“And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.”

Source : "Larry Flynt on sex and presidents" by Katie McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. April 20, 2011.
“Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of "Christian" countries that tend to be as consumer-oriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody else-and often more so, I'm afraid.”
“It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.”

Source : John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Every time you say yes to something you donâ€™t want to do, this will happen: you will resent people, you will do a bad job, you will have less energy for the things you were doing a good job on, you will make less money, and yet another small percentage of your life will be used up, burned up, a smoke signal to the future saying, â€œI did it again.”
“I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless.”
“I have turned down playing the most despicable people on Earth. I turn it down all the time.”

Source : "South Florida's Steven Bauer returns to TV". Interview with Johnny Diaz, articles.sun-sentinel.com. June 20, 2013.

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