standing order or standing orders may refer to:
- standing order (banking) (or banker's order), instruction to a bank to pay a set amount at regular intervals from one account to another
- rules of order (or standing orders), governing parliamentary procedure for an assembly
- general order, directive published by a military commander, and binding upon all personnel under their command
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“The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not our mother, initiate parting, and as long as our mother remains reliably there, it seems possible to risk, and even to revel in, standing alone.”
—Judith Viorst (20th century)
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