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• James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos.

  Kaley Cuoco

  Peace, Rivers, Peaceful

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

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• Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

  Stafford Cripps

  Mean, Government, Differences

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• If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Iraq, Feels, Ifs

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• Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

  Walter Legge

  Art, Achievement, Democracy

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• I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, House, Noise

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• The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos.

  Ilya Prigogine

  Order, Mechanism

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• So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

  Rowan Williams

  Beauty, Order, Creative

  Sergeĭ Nikolaevich Bulgakov, Rowan Williams (1999). “Sergii Bulgakov: towards a Russian political theology”, Tamp;t Clark Ltd

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• Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.

  H. G. Wells

  Noses, Faces, Bits

  1895 Select Conversations with an Uncle, 'The Man with a Nose'.

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• His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Style, Lightning

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.221, Oxford University Press

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• A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.

  John Milton

  Night, Reign, Hell

  John Milton (1903*). “Poetical Works”

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• City diversity represents accident and chaos.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Diversity, Accidents

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.150, Vintage

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• Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Determined, Chaotic, Predictable

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• Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time... If you are trying to stop those situations, you are looking for external means of liberating yourself, another answer. But if we are able to look into the basic situation, then chaos is the inspiration, confusion is the inspiration.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Mean

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “The Pocket Chögyam Trungpa”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.

  Dan Abnett

  Men, Soul, May

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• Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.

  Danny Silk

  Conflict, Absence, Authority

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• When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

  Stephen Spender

  Littles, Rich, Applause

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• If Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984. He will come with a smile on his face, a quip on his lips, a wave to the crowd, and a press that (a) dutifully reports the suppressive measures he is taking to save the nation from internal chaos and foreign threat; and (b) gingerly questions whether he will be able to succeed.

  Michael Parenti

  Brother, Heart, America

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• The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.

  Arthur Miller

  Spring, Writing, Order

  Arthur Miller, Matthew Charles Roudané (1987). “Conversations with Arthur Miller”, p.287, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Sweet, Stars

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 9, 1919.

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• The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of the universe. All it can be is an awakening in the night, where all that can be heard is anguished poetry let loose.

  Georges Bataille

  Night, Mind, Awakening

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• And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Giving Up, Men, Roots

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• Art is the triumph over chaos.

  John Cheever

  Art, Triumph, Artistic Process

  John Cheever (1961). “Some Peoples, Places, and Things that Will Not Appear in My Next Novel”, New York : Harper

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• We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us.

  Jacque Fresco

  Health, Cities, Political

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• Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

  Walter Benjamin

  Memories, Passion, Borders

  Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.486, Harvard University Press

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

  George W. Bush

  Enemy, Paper, September

  George W. Bush's State of the Union, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2004.

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