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

  Robert Quillen

  Science, Space, Wish

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• Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Ideas, Design, Normalcy

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• I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

  Bob Dylan

  Fear, Acceptance, People

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• If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Years, Environmental

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• In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

  Randall Terry

  Eye, Law, Tyrants

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• Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Knack, Panic

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Work, Progress, Doe

  "Stately as a Galleon". Book by Joyce Grenfell, 1978.

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• What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

  Kerry Thornley

  Crazy, Order, Mad

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• Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Reign, Pandemonium

  John Kendrick Bangs (2015). “From Pillar to Post: Bangs Classic Collection”, p.17, 谷月社

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• Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

  Sylvia Plath

  Cold, Kind, Be Good

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• When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

  Edith Hamilton

  Mind, Literature, Facts

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.

  Eric Maisel

  Fashion, Art, Choices

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• There is another world, but it is in this one.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, World, Another World

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• I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Moving, Thinking, Jumping

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• Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

  William Wordsworth

  Dream, Fall, Men

  1814 'The Excursion', preface, l.35-41.

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• The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.

  Donald M. MacKinnon

  Simple, Creative, Disorder

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• There are too many games now where there's too much structure and not enough of the chaos.

  Ken Hitchcock

  Games, Too Much, Enough

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• Photos tend to organize chaos, to define what we're doing here. It is essential that individuals' voices depict the world around us, as we are increasingly controlled by large institutions, large companies and large systems.

  Martin Parr

  Voice, Essentials, World

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• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  Manly Hall

  Blessing, Self, Boredom

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• A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.

  Annie Dillard

  Schedules, Catching, Whim

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• Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site.

  Wolf Kahn

  Artist, Order, Challenges

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• It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.

  Bill Vaughan

  Essence, Speech, Opinion

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• Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

  Robert Moses

  Hands, Divine, Made

  Robert Moses (1970). “Public Works: A Dangerous Trade”

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• Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art.

  Alfred Brendel

  Art, Order, Giving

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• A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

  Robert Bork

  Life And Love, Government, Law

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