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Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in you...

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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Why did every human concern clog itself up in a tangle of routines, formalities, disciplines, impera...

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And suddenly he became almost lyric. "For three thousand years the Common Man has been fended off fr...

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I cry out for order and find it only in art.

The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison wit...

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There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve ...

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We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west it is not magnetized. Lay...

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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have en...

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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

If I love order, it's not the mark of a character subjected to an inner discipline, a repression of ...

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Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning t...

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Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.

How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state con...

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Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscourse on the Origin of Inequality

The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior—benefits that ex...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the essential two are these: that he shall str...

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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men ...

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It was said in the old days that every year Thor made a circle around Middle-earth, beating back the...

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If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to t...

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Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.

And gradually it dawned on him, if a dawning can take place in total blackness, that his life has co...

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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and temp...

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And he knew something else as a social evolutionist that he might stress someday in his 'Every Chang...

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He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos...

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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to ...

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There are people like Senhor José everywhere, who fill their time, or what they believe to be their ...

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Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.

All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager...

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Julio CortázarAround the Day in Eighty Worlds

Law & order embrace on hate's border.

Highly evolved people have their own conscience as pure law.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by st...

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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his strid...

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There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order method and discipl...

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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

What drove such people to their sinister occupations? Spite? Certainly, but also the desire for orde...

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In the presence of Esch, values have hidden their faces. Order, loyalty, sacrifice—he cherishes all ...

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...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust...

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Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

Do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ...

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The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order?

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Philip K. DickPhilip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

She was a woman with a broom or a dust-pan or a washrag or a mixing spoon in her hand. You sawher cu...

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The universe began in an instant, is expanding, and exhibits design, order, and complexity. Every ef...

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Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this o...

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René GuénonThe Crisis of the Modern World

Chance was just an order that you hadn't yet perceived.

Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuff...

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If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, certai...

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words...To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.

He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us...

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I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

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.

Fantasy imposes order on the universe. Or, at least, it superimposes order on the universe. And it i...

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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject

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

Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we are...condemned. Each move...

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Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But aft...

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It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that tw...

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Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

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Walter BenjaminIlluminations: Essays and Reflections

When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

My mind does not easily accept stately historical processions.

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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Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factor...

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Order is Heaven's first law.

Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of ...

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Because if it's really true that there's no order, then anything can happen to us. Anything at all. ...

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What sort of world is it at all? Men on the moon and men spinning round the earth like it might be m...

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We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a ...

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I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and r...

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There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody anywhere anytime.

I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

But that, in shutting out the light of day, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and hea...

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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the...

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Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification.

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Sup...

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Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intell...

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

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Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic...

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