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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)

    “Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.”
    —Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)

    “Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.”
    —John Updike (b. 1932)

    “Out of the darkness where Philomela sat,
    Her fairy numbers issued. What then ailed me?
    My ears are called capacious but they failed me,
    Her classics registered a little flat!
    I rose, and venomously spat.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)