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"There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman."
Pythagoras
"There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman."
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"I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order."
Connie Nielsen
"I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order."
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"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."
Carl Jung
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."
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"Chaos is the score upon which reality is written."
Henry Miller
"Chaos is the score upon which reality is written."
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"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
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"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."
Deepak Chopra
"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."
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"I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology."
Brendan Fraser
"I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology."
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"I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me."
Bob Dylan
"I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me."
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"Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything."
Bill Griffith
"Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything."
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"Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine."
Robert Moses
"Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine."
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"I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention."
"I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention."
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"NYC is chaotic. And I am attracted to chaos."
Trevor Dunn
"NYC is chaotic. And I am attracted to chaos."
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"Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos."
Spalding Gray
"Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos."
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"Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end."
George Orwell
"Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end."
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"June cackled with delight, muttering, "Whoops!" as a car almost killed them."
Rick Riordan
"June cackled with delight, muttering, "Whoops!" as a car almost killed them."
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"If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos."
Robert Quillen
"If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos."
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"Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible."
Balthus
"Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible."
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"The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode."
Spalding Gray
"The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode."
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"I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy."
Oscar Levant
"I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy."
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"Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?"
Marie Windsor
"Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?"
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"Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories."
Walter Benjamin
"Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories."
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"Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence."
Buddha
"Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence."
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"When tempest tossed, embrace chaos."
Dean Koontz
"When tempest tossed, embrace chaos."
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"I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?"
Federico Fellini
"I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?"
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"We live in a rainbow of chaos."
Paul Cezanne
"We live in a rainbow of chaos."
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"We have arrived at an intellectual chaos."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"We have arrived at an intellectual chaos."
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"The World, form'd out of Chaos. Man is made."
George Sandys
"The World, form'd out of Chaos. Man is made."
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"When there's darkness, there are all kinds of evil things happening, rebellion is there, and corruption is operating."
Sunday Adelaja
"When there's darkness, there are all kinds of evil things happening, rebellion is there, and corruption is operating."
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"Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena."
Wilhelm Reich
"Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena."
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"No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?"
Hugh Mackay
"No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?"
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"What the mud had been doing with itself, or where it came from, who could say? But it seemed to collect in a moment, as a crowd will, and in five minutes to have splashed all the sons and daughters of Adam."
Charles Dickens
"What the mud had been doing with itself, or where it came from, who could say? But it seemed to collect in a moment, as a crowd will, and in five minutes to have splashed all the sons and daughters of Adam."
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"Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos."
Francis Ford Coppola
"Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos."
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"What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos."
Kerry Thornley
"What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos."
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"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
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"Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos."
Peter Mandelson
"Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos."
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"James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos."
Kaley Cuoco
"James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos."
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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
"When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little."
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"Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing."
Charles Sanders Peirce
"Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing."
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"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos."
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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
"If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would."
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"I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom."
Jim Morrison
"I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom."
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"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds."
George Santayana
"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds."
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"If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos."
E. O. Wilson
"If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos."
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"They may the better fish in the water when it is troubled."
Richard Grafton
"They may the better fish in the water when it is troubled."
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"In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever."
William J. Clinton
"In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever."
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"When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos."
Edith Hamilton
"When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos."
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"No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime."
Mason Cooley
"No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime."
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"Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition."
Murray Gell Mann
"Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition."
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"If this all works which I have read and some of which I have written did happen just one year... the events... wow...wow... what type of serial killer... what type of crazy mad stuff are going to happen... it's just an example of chaos."
Deyth Banger
"If this all works which I have read and some of which I have written did happen just one year... the events... wow...wow... what type of serial killer... what type of crazy mad stuff are going to happen... it's just an example of chaos."
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"We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry."
Sarah Vowell
"We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry."
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