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By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.

Stanley Hauerwas

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Dolores Umbridge: Wands away. There will be no need to talk. Hermione Granger: [sotto] No need to think is more like it.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Dolores Umbridge: Predict something. Sybil Trelawney: Erm. You... are in great danger! Dolores Umbridge: Lovely!

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Hermione Granger: When are you going to get it into your head? We're in this together!

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Hermione Granger: Everyone, this is Loony... [too late realizing her mistake] Hermione Granger: ...Luna Lovegood.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Albus Dumbledore: Don't fight him Harry, you can't win!

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Dudley Dursley (mocking Harry): Don't Kill Cedric Dudley Dursley: Who's Cedric! Your Boyfriend

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

Vaclav Havel

A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.

Michael Huffington

. . . And the consequence to that is, you can never attain a Clear Awareness of life’s flow by absorbing and following Old Teachings, however revered by our culture, however vaunted by institutions and fancy buildings, however nice they sound, beca...

Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works

The house is a normal-sized house, but once you step foot in the door, you are confronted with “The Dome.” Perfectly round, this room is one continuous curved wall of books. A copper dome sits on top with four stained glass windows fitted tight t...

Gosh, I probably shouldn't publish this.

Anyway, these ideas or feelings or ramblings had their satisfactions. They turned the pain of others into memories of one’s own. They turned pain, which is natural, enduring, and eternally triumphant, into personal memory, which is human, brief, an...

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One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but ...

Island

Then, learn from me not to judge by appearances: I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and never keep, things in order; I am careless; I forget rules; I read when I should learn my lessons; I have no method: and sometimes I say, lik...

Jane Eyre

The ability to see our lives as stories and share those stories with others is at the core of what it means to be human. We use stories to order and make sense of our lives, to define who we are, even to construct our realities: this happened, then t...

John Capecci and Timothy Cage

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

George W. Bush

All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.

Graham Swift

Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble it may be, art cannot perform a single one of the miracles of nature. And besides, why imitate nature when it can be perceived b...

The Prophet