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• No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.

  Randolph Bourne

  Mistake, Heart, Reflection

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• Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.

  Joshua Foer

  Age, Principles, Philosopher

  «Utopian for Beginners» by Joshua Foer, www.newyorker.com. December 24 & 31, 2012.

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• Accidents and chance are words used by persons who do not think clearly when they attempt to account for certain happenings. Anyone who thinks must be convinced that in a world as orderly as this there is no room for the words accident and chance.

  Harold Percival

  Thinking, Rooms, World

  Harold W. Percival (2002). “Thinking And Destiny”, p.48, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly.

  Frances Trollope

  Freedom, America, United States

  Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.72, Oxford University Press

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• Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and operated in a more thoughtful and organized fashion? Absolutely. But when you look at history that's been the exception rather than the norm.

  Barack Obama

  Fashion, Thoughtful, People

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 30, 2012.

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• The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.

  Roger Scruton

  Order, Voice, Achievement

  "A Political Philosophy". Book by Roger Scruton, 2006.

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• There is perhaps no single factor contributing so much to people's frequent reluctance to let the market work as their inability to conceive how some necessary balance, between demand and supply, between exports and imports, or the like, will be brought about without deliberate control. The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  People, Balance, Inability

  "In Memoriam: F.A. Hayek" by Virginia Postrel, reason.com. June 1992.

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• I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that is how it sometimes appears. My subjects are also often playful: I cannot refrain from demonstrating the nonsensicalness of some of what we take to be irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure to deliberately mix together objects of two and three dimensions, surface and spatial relationships, and to make fun of gravity.

  M. C. Escher

  Beautiful, Fun, Two

  "Escher on Escher: exploring the infinite". Book by J. W. Vermeulen, H. N. Abrams, 1989.

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• An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity

  Charles Ives

  Long, Confusion, Unity

  Charles Ives, Stephen Drury (2012). “Piano sonata no. 2: "Concord" : with the Essays before a sonata”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander.

  Iwane Matsui

  Responsibility, Army, Discipline

  "Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity". Book by Masahiro Yamamoto, History, p. 232, 2000.

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• When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  One Thing

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• To me the gospel is not a great mass of theological jargon. It is a simple and beautiful and logical thing, with one quiet truth following another in orderly sequence. I do not fret over the mysteries. I do not worry whether the heavenly gates swing or slide. I am only concerned that they open.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Simple, Swings

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• There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who eats chicken croquettes, if I can find them. And then there is the writer, this writer-person, who is a much finer person than I. Much more orderly, much more meaningful. Worthier, than I [am].

  Harlan Ellison

  Meaningful, Couple, Fart

  "Harlan Ellison, Part Two". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 08, 2008.

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• If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.

  Abraham Maslow

  Beautiful, Running, Long

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• We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people.... Those who support party organization and submit to party discipline are supporting the only course yet discovered for orderly government by the people.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Party, Government, Organization

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• All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Loss, Information

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• His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.

  William Joyce

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  William Joyce (2012). “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore: with audio recording”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Character, Introverted, Observant

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.68, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous judge who gives them exactly what they deserve. By believing that we keep the world orderly and understandable.... But [this belief] has a number of serious limitations.... It teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt when there is no basis for guilt. And most disturbing of all, it does not even fit the facts.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Believe, Responsibility, Numbers

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• Set up your study or picture in an orderly fashion. This order should not cramp either the linearist or the colorist... Never lose sight of that first impression by which you were moved.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Fashion, Sight, Order

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• There's also something about your bed; it's sort of a symbol of yourself and of your marriage, if you're married. Making your bed doesn't seem to be an important thing in a happy life, and yet it can be that tiny foothold into a more orderly life that sometimes people need.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Happy Life, People, Important

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• America, like Britain before her, is now the great defender of the Status Quo. She has committed herself against revolution and radical change in the underdeveloped world because independent governments would destroy the world economic and political system, which assures the United States its disproportionate share of economic and political power ... America's preeminent wealth depends upon keeping things in the underdeveloped world much as they are, allowing change and modernization to proceed only in a controlled, orderly, and nonthreatening way.

  Richard Barnet

  Independent, America, Government

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• With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.

  Margaret Mead

  Stress, Next, Mature

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something that they thought irretrievably lost.

  Helen Exley

  Thrill, Proud, Funny Business

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• very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Keys, Piano, Teeth

  Cynthia Ozick (2009). “Dictation: A Quartet”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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