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I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal s...

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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I s...

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A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likel...

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that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.

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Robert HughesThe Shock of the New

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos...

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democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to t...

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Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

A society is an organic system that develops spontaneously, governed by myriad interactions and adju...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middl...

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These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, nea...

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Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominan...

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We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a t...

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The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which ...

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Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos were lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a ...

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The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

There was simply no peace to be had no matter where you hid yourself away. Even in a northern border...

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The clown is a creature of chaos. His appearance is an affront to our sense of dignity, his actions ...

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Tom RobbinsAnother Roadside Attraction

Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with...

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In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--arti...

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Tom RobbinsEven Cowgirls Get the Blues

I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a...

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The chaos lies all within.

Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is...

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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without d...

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The law of chaos is the law of ideas,Of improvisations and seasons of belief.Ideas are men. The mass...

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Wallace StevensThe Collected Poems

If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space.

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes co...

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That feeling. That's the real difference in a life. People who live on solid ground, underneath safe...

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We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relati...

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Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when w...

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In the immediate vicinity, there might well be stability and peace. In the garden, a breeze may be s...

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Alain de BottonThe News: A User's Manual

Deep down, nature is inherently peaceful, calm and beautiful. The universe as a whole is perfect. Th...

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Great leader knows that under the turmoil of chaos and change, there is a beauty of patterns and des...

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Amit RayMindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had...

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What you call your lies are fiction and myths. The art of creating a disguise can be as beautiful as...

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We are punctual, a stressed, marked characteristic. We need order around us, in the house, in the li...

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And this notion of the meaninglessness of our lives here began to enflame us.I took up the theme aga...

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It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of ...

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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.

The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist...

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The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds...

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But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then n...

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It will never end.Till the world ends in the chaos of Ragnarok, we will fight for our women, for our...

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History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

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History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

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History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

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History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

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History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

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History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

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History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

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History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

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I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

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Brandon SandersonAlcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

The reason I love rules and plans and religions is that people feel safe in them for a while. And, p...

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Byron KatieA Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are

We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Huma...

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Normality; show me normality, señor caballero, and I will show you an exception to the abnormal orde...

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Ragnor [was] always happy to see chaos, but not be involved in it.

Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had bee...

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What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we c...

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Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolis...

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There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns ...

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One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create...

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[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every mom...

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We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness an...

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The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their god...

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This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and e...

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–Don’t you think the vast majority of the chaos in the world is caused by a relatively small group o...

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The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you.

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David ByrneHow Music Works

Mr. Thomas, any scientist will tell you that in nature many systems appear to be chaotic, but when y...

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...an age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not...

Art is the only answer to chaos and the void.

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that ...

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the hinder portion scalding-house good eating Curve B in addition to the usual baths and ablutions m...

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Awake,chaos:we have napped.

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i...

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What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law -- our highest ideal an...

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Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some ...

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Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but...

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You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you st...

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I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have ...

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I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right t...

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Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: 'Swine! Swine! Swine!', and suddenly she p...

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Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: The realm. Do you know what the realm is? It's the thousand blades of ...

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After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal pape...

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It's chance, I tell you,' he interrupted, ' as everything is in a man's life.

It's just that the chaos has changed shape. The giraffe and the bear have traded hats, and the bear'...

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It is cognition that is the fantasy.... Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and re...

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.

The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all...

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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.