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• Chaos is a friend of mine.

  Bob Dylan

  Mines

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

  Will Durant

  Order, Civilization, Liberty

  "The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers". Book by Will Durant, 1926.

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• Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

  Terry Pratchett

  Order, Defeat, Abundance

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• Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

  George Santayana

  Order, Names, Confusion

  George Santayana (1995). “Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government”, p.33, Transaction Publishers

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• Our real discoveries come from chaos.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Discovery, Invisible Monsters

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

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• Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.

  Bill Vaughan

  Balance, Excess, Too Much

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• exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

  Stephen Dunn

  Rain, Sunset, Animal

  Stephen Dunn (2010). “Different Hours: Poems”, p.88, W. W. Norton & Company

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• They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Nightmare, Wordplay

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• I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.

  Helen Reddy

  Order, Balance, Classical Music

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• The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

  John Dos Passos

  Strong, Men, Fog

  John Dos Passos (1956). “The Theme is Freedom”

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• Caress the detail, the divine detail.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Religion, Details, Spirit

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• Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites. Chaos and Order combined equal balance.

  Richard Garriott

  Order, Opposites, Enemy

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• It will take time to restore chaos

  George W. Bush

  Idiot, Take Time

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• Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

  Lord Byron

  Passion, People, Literature

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.20, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Chaos is impatient. It's random. And above all it's selfish. It tears down everything just for the sake of change, feeding on itself in constant hunger. But Chaos can also be appealing. It tempts you to believe that nothing matters except what you want.

  Rick Riordan

  Selfish, Believe, Tears

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• Order is repetition of units.
  Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.

  M. C. Escher

  Order, Repetition, Rhythm

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• The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Enemy, Winner, Scene

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• Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

  Kerry Thornley

  Order, Religion, And Love

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• Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

  Lorna Luft

  Scary, Frightening, Exhausting

  "How to Find the Gifts in Chaos" by Matthew B. James, Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2015.

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• In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Space, Another Chance, Shapes

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• I want to create a little chaos and make people's heads turn.

  Scott Caan

  People, Want, Littles

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• Order and creativity are complementary.

  Lewis Mumford

  Creativity, Order, Complementary

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• Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Silence, Teach

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

  Ben Shahn

  Elements, World, Dull

  Ben Shahn (1972). “Ben Shahn”

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