I’d always follow Nixon’s orders, but you can’t order somebody to be happy.
– Charles W Colson
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- To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don’t follow those orders which make no sense. – Amit Kalantri
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- The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. – Henry Miller
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- We advise disciples not to follow anyone. Let them follow themselves. Each one should follow his resplendent and luminous inner Being. – Samael Aun Weor
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