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• Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Being Yourself, Chaos In The World, Rejecting

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Within chaos lies opportunity.

  P. C. Cast

  Lying, Opportunity

  P. C. Cast, Kim Doner (2014). “The Fledgling Handbook 101”, p.10, St. Martin's Griffin

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• In chaos, there is fertility.

  Anais Nin

  Single Girl, Fertility

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• Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Stupid, Discovery

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.258, Random House

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• I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Peace, Creativity, Thinking

  Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

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• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Dance, Courage

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

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• If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee the it will eventually subside

  Julie Andrews

  Guarantees, Calm, Midst

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• Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

  Henry Miller

  Reality, Order And Chaos, Score

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Passion, Intense, Scales

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

  Anthony Kiedis

  People, World, Consciousness

  Interview With Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 26, 1999.

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• Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Writing, Creating, Doe

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Art, Order, Racist

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 05, 2005.

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• Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

  Hermann Hesse

  Order, Demand

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• What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Patterns, Havens, Decipher

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

  M. C. Escher

  Inspirational, Life, Order

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• The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Passion, Views, Practice

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Two: The Path Is the Goal; Training the Mind; Glimpses of Abhidharma; Glimpses of Shu nyata; Glimpses of Mahayana; Selected Writings”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.

  George R. R. Martin

  Real, Fall, Trying

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• Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Freedom, Justice, Vanishing Point

  Alan Dean Foster (2014). “To the Vanishing Point”, p.184, Open Road Media

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• Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  People, Culture, Tvs

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• Chaos is the only thing that honestly wants you to grow. The only friend who really helps you be creative.

  Dan Wieden

  Creative, Want, Helping

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• The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Creative, Form, Process

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

  Henry Adams

  Life, Change, Order

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 16 (1907)

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  Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

  Homer

  Beautiful, Rage From The Iliad, Achilles

  "Troy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

  Sigmund Freud

  Doe, Forgotten

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

  David Cronenberg

  Math, Science, Technology

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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