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• Religious strictures are often the source of attitudes toward nudity. Society urges the wearing of clothing partially as a means of controlling the powerful sexual urges that are feared will be released by nudity, causing chaotic behavior.

  Patricia Garfield

  Religious, Powerful, Attitude

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• The champions of militant Islam are, of course, misogynists, woman-haters; they are also misologists - haters of reason. Their armed doctrine is little more than a chaotic penal code underscored by impotent dreams of genocide. And, like all religions, it is a massive agglutination of stock response, of cliches, of inherited and unexamined formulations.

  Martin Amis

  Dream, Champion, Islam

  "The voice of the lonely crowd" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2002.

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• A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.

  May Sarton

  Would Be, Routine, Body

  May Sarton (2014). “At Eighty-Two: A Journal”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Names, Swim

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.159

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• I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dream, Book, Hands

  Sean Kernan, Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “The secret books”, Leete'S Island Books

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• War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

  Paullina Simons

  War, Lying, Men

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• Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art.

  Alfred Brendel

  Art, Order, Giving

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• Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures, a series of frenzied anxiety attacks would descend upon me without warning. My body was possessed by a chaotic, demonic force which led to my shaking, pacing and violently hitting myself across the chest or in the head. This self-flagellation seemed to provide a physical outlet for my invisible torment, as if I were letting steam out of a pressure cooker.

  Douglas Bloch

  Self, Anxiety, Pressure

  Douglas Bloch (1999). “When Going Through Hell...Dont' Stop!: A Survivor's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety and Clinical Depression”, p.17, BookBaby

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• In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.

  Sue Kaufman

  Women, Lying, Home

  Sue Kaufman (1974). “Falling Bodies”, Doubleday Books

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• Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming.

  Vishen Lakhiani

  Success, Dream, Respect

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• No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Trying, World, Matter

  Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.263, Ballantine Books

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• I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Life Is, Knows

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• If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.

  Howard Gardner

  Lying, Hands, Would Be

  "Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner, Part I". Interview with Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

  Dave Eggers

  Dad, Caring, Chaos

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• If you're not settled spiritually, things can be a little bit more chaotic than normal.

  Emmitt Smith

  Littles, Normal, Bits

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• If you are trying to appear calm and collected on the outside when actually you are feeling upset and angry, your children may mirror this to you by becoming wild and disruptive. While you are trying to maintain control, they pick up the chaotic energy inside of you and reflect it in their behavior. If you express directly what you are feeling, without trying to cover it up, they will usually calm down. They feel comfortable with the truth, the congruity between your feelings and your words. This is true of other relationships as well.

  Shakti Gawain

  Children, Mirrors, Feelings

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

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• Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here is a little more chaotic.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Cages, Littles

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• In art, vitality is the chaotic initial state; beauty is the cosmic final state.

  Chairil Anwar

  Art, Vitality, Finals

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• I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who have it will experience a frightening, chaotic and emotional ride. It is not a gentle or easy disease.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Emotional, Years, Bipolar

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• The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. This explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. These influences are nothing but unconscious instrospective perceptions of the collective unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Stars, Real, Taken

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• Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the streets competing with the cars and buses and lorries because it is the poor man's mode of transport.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Men, Car, Riding A Bicycle

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• Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem

  Neal Shusterman

  Cities, Needs, Might

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Downsiders”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.

  Jim Woodring

  Kids, Childhood, Feelings

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• Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Boring

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• Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Drama, Grief, Loss

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