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"I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion."

"Nothing Functions Normally Apart From The Principles Of The Kingdom Of God."

"Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!"

"In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk."

"It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy."

"If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it."

"I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors."

"Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing."

"Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created."
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"Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them."


"The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory."


"Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems."


"Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order."


"The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular."


"Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses."


"The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple."


"Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement."


"The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind."
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