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Famous quotes containing the words orders of, orders, magnitude and/or numbers:

    “Your money’s no good here. Orders of the house.”
    —Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)

    “God is a foreman with certain definite views
    Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.”
    —Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

    “He all their ammunition
    And feats of war defeats
    With plain heroic magnitude of mind
    And celestial vigour armed;”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.”
    —Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)