"He doesn't blame people for many sins, but he does hate uncoordination, the root of all evil, as he feels it, for without coordination there can be no order, no connecting."

Order, Coordination, Structure, Control

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"He doesn't blame people for many sins, but he does hate uncoordination, the root of all evil, as he feels it, for without coordination there can be no order, no connecting."

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"Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion."

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"Overrated is order."

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"I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane."

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"Of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"God has created the world to be run by His principles."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The real beauty of life is in orderliness."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Discipline is a demand of life."

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"In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against."

Frank Oz, American Actor

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"I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser."

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"There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals."

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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

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"No matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong - you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into."

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"Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly."

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"My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy."

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"But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography."

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"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."

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"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."

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"That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds."

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