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• A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  People, Appreciate, World

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• Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

  Spalding Gray

  Complexity

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• I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Believe, May, Revolutionary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

  Carlos Castaneda

  House, Stressed, Tendencies

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• Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Order, Roots, Rage

  William Irwin Thompson (1977). “Evil and world order”

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• To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

  Samuel Beckett

  Artist, Tasks, Waiting For Godot

  "Why music struck a chord with Beckett" by Sean Doran, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2014.

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• It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Science, Order, Eerie

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

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Order, Design

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.222, Verso

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• It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspiration, Learning, Creativity

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• There's chaos out there and chaos means opportunity.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Mean, Opportunity

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• There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Beautiful, May

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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 dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.

  Terence McKenna

  Our World, Names, Dmt

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• Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most others will turn to faith for understanding; and the rest will become lost souls.

  Robert Breault

  Artist, Order, Understanding

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• When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Order, Individuality

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• Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

  James Thurber

  Inspirational, Humor, Emotional

  The New York Post, February 29, 1960.

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• Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Music, Order, Divergent

  Yehudi Menuhin (1972). “Theme and Variations”, New York : Stein and Day

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• Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.

  William Butler Yeats

  Blood, World, Anarchy

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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• We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions occur weekly. In ancient Greek the word “chaos” means “gaping void” or “yawning emptiness.” The most effective response to the chaos in our lives is the creation of new forms of literature, music, poetry, art and cinema.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Mean, Yawning

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• Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?

  Marilyn French

  Soul, Littles, Remember

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.227, Hachette UK

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• Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

  Douglas Coupland

  Lazy, Way, Blame

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “All Families are Psychotic”, p.120, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Music creates order out of chaos.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Music, Order, Continuity Of Life

  "Symboles Dans la Vie Et Dans L'art". Book by George Whalley, p. 29, 1987.

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• The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often

  Murray Gell-Mann

  World, Quantum, Fluctuation

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• I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

  Voltaire

  Stupid, Heart, Love Life

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: or, Optimism”

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• Fate shall yield
  To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

  John Milton

  Fate, Yield, Judging

  John Milton (1866). “Milton's Paradise Lost”, p.34

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

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Cute, Order

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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