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• Good order is the foundation of all things.

  Edmund Burke

  Foundation, Organize, All Things

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 351

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• To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

  Herman Melville

  Literature, Method, Enterprise

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.299, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.

  Michael Gerber

  Inspirational, Vision, Patterns

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• Order is heaven's first law.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Math, Law

  1733 An Essay on Man, epistle to 4, l.49.

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• Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Patience, Haste

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• We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Giving, Dues

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• Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

  Henry Adams

  Dream, Nature, Men

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.550, BookRix

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• 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.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Team, Animal, Machines

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.3, Univ of California Press

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

  M. C. Escher

  Chaos, Repetition, Rhythm

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• there should be a place for everything, and everything in its place.

  Isabella Beeton

  Organization, Organized Life, Should

  1861 The Book of Household Management, ch.2.

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• Order is never observed; it is disorder which attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

  Eliphas Levi

  Awkward, Attention, Awkward Situations

  "The Great Secret, Or, Occultism Unveiled".

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  We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Block, Law, Justice

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mean, Light, Self

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• There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

  Jane Jacobs

  Real, Struggle, Earth Day

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.15, Vintage

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• Everything you have done and been through is valuable and important. In order to be who you are, to know what you know, to be where you are in this moment, you needed to go through what you went through.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Knowledge, Past, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Feb 05, 2014

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• What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

  Kerry Thornley

  Crazy, Mad, Imagination

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• Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest order is what you already find there, or that will be given if you don't try for it. When you arrange, you fail.

  Fairfield Porter

  Trying, Failing, Harmony

  Fairfield Porter, Ted Leigh, Justin Spring (2005). “Material witness: the selected letters of Fairfield Porter”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good.

  Jesse Robredo

  Organization, Politician, Enough

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• Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential... In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Thinking, Waiting, Essentials

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• A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• Poetry: the best words in the best order.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Writing, Vocabulary, Prose Poetry

  Table Talk 12 July 1827 (1835)

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• Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

  Alexander Pope

  Law, Heaven, Firsts

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.300, Oxford University Press

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• The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.

  Umberto Eco

  Mind, Ladders, Imagine

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.528, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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