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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)

    “Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    “And when all bodies meet
    In Lethe to be drowned,
    Then only numbers sweet
    With endless life are crowned.”
    —Robert Herrick (1591–1674)