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"In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime."


"Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts."


"I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion."


"The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely."


"I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!"


"I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order."


"He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen."


"That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming."


"The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not."


"I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown."


"An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience."


"Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two."


"Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore."


"The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be."


"2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically."


"For every natural law inherent in creation, there is the creator's precision."


"In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while."


"In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated."
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