Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
The abiding western dominology can with religion sanction identify anything dark, profound, or fluid with a revolting chaos, an evil to be mastered, a nothing to be ignored. 'God had made us master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has made us adept in government that we may administer government among savages and senile peoples.' From the vantage point of the colonizing episteme, the evil is always disorder rather than unjust order; anarchy rather than control, darkness rather than pallor. To plead otherwise is to write 'carte blanche for chaos.' Yet those who wear the mark of chaos, the skins of darkness, the genders of unspeakable openings -- those Others of Order keep finding voice. But they continue to be muted by the bellowing of the dominant discourse.
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
The universe began in an instant, is expanding, and exhibits design, order, and complexity. Every effect must have a Cause, and design must have a Designer.
The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.
I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).
I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.
Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.