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• It's important for me to have hope because that's my job as a parent, to have hope, for my kids, that we're not going to leave them in a world that's in shambles, that's a chaotic place, that's a dangerous place.

  James Cameron

  Jobs, Kids, Parent

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• Revenge is good. I think revenge is healthy too, and if you can use music in that way, a sort of therapeutic way for yourself, it can't do any harm. So if King (For A Day... Fool For A Lifetime) is angry in any way, it's angry in a random, chaotic, healthy way. Like the guy who goes into a building, shoots a bunch of holes in the wall and then leaves. He didn't kill anybody.

  Mike Patton

  Kings, Wall, Revenge

  "Faith No More". CMJ New Music Monthly, April 1995.

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• It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predict and we can't control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.

  Rudy Rucker

  Dream, Inner Peace, Surfing

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• Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

  Javier Marías

  Novelists, Life Is

  "Javier Marías, The Art of Fiction No. 190". Interview with Sarah Fay in "The Paris Review", Issue 179, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 2006.

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• The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If they are mainly small, weak, superficial, and incoherent, life will appear insipid , uninteresting, petty and chaotic.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Lying, Ideas, Giving

  "SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL".

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• I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it...I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse's mouth...This is I, the machine, manoeuvering in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations... Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.

  Dziga Vertov

  Running, Horse, Moving

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• Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.

  Dani Shapiro

  Writing, Way, Window

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.227, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupid, cruel sentimentalism.

  Margaret Sanger

  Stupid, May, Chance

  Margaret Sanger, H. G. Wells (2016). “The Pivot of Civilization”, p.21, Read Books Ltd

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• Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.

  Edward Abbey

  Disorder, Improvisation, Day To Day

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• I want an ending that’s satisfying. I’m more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don’t like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Mean, Want, Life Is

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Giving, Events

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• Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary. But in the world of D&D, at least there was a rule book... By role-playing, we were in control, and our characters... wandered through places of danger, their destinies, ostensibly, within our grasp.

  Ethan Gilsdorf

  Real, Book, Character

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• I believe that Manila can be a reflection of your state of mind. Being a city of extreme contrasts it's easy to see how it can become an intense personal experience. Manila can be chaotic and spiritual, dirty and divine, gritty and gorgeous all at once. If you don't find beauty and poetry here, you will never find it anywhere.

  Carlos Celdran

  Spiritual, Believe, Dirty

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• Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And we must key into those feelings... This is how new visions begin.

  Audre Lorde

  Keys, Feelings, Vision

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be chaos, if you can study it and it has an order.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Order

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• Write even when the world is chaotic.

  Cory Doctorow

  Writing, World

  Twitter post from Jun 18, 2017

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• It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  World, This World, Pray Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.77, A&C Black

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• We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves

  Rudy Rucker

  Surfing, World, Wave

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• Our chaotic economic situation has convinced so many of our young people that there is no room for them. They become uncertain andrestless and morbid; they grab at false promises, embrace false gods and judge things by treacherous values. Their insecurity makes them believe that tomorrow doesn't matter and the ineffectualness of their lives makes them deny the ideals which we of an older generation acknowledged.

  Hortense Odlum

  Believe, Judging, People

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• But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Law, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1102, Delphi Classics

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• Music seems to hold everything together. It seems to make things not so chaotic sometimes. It seems to make things make more sense sometimes.

  Tyler Joseph

  Together, Sometimes, Seems

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• This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman...is what ultimately lies behind man's famous "conquest of nature" - a conquest that is today puncturing holes in the earth's ozone layer, destroying our forests, polluting our air and water, and increasingly threatening the welfare, and even survival, of thousands of living species, including our own.

  Riane Eisler

  Lying, Loss, Men

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• When we talk of architecture, people usually think of something static; this is wrong. What we are thinking of is an architecture similar to the dynamic and musical architecture achieved by the Futurist musician Pratella. Architecture is found in the movement of colours, of smoke from a chimney and in metallic structures, when they are expressed in states of mind which are violent and chaotic.

  Carlo Carra

  Thinking, People, Musical

  "The Painting of Sounds, Noises and Smells" by Carlo Carra (1913), as translated in: Mary Ann Caws "Manifesto: A Century of Isms," p. 203, 2001.

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• It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.

  David Foster Wallace

  Lovely, Citizens, Limits

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.68, Hachette UK

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