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

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Jeanette WintersonThe World and Other Places: Stories

The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior—benefits that ex...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help other out of this chaos - not ...

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If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help others out of this chaos - not...

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I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have n...

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Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the essential two are these: that he shall str...

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Art is the triumph over chaos.

It was said in the old days that every year Thor made a circle around Middle-earth, beating back the...

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It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses a...

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But now at last the sacred influenceOf light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'nShoots far into the...

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If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to t...

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Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.

And gradually it dawned on him, if a dawning can take place in total blackness, that his life has co...

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And he knew something else as a social evolutionist that he might stress someday in his 'Every Chang...

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He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos...

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There are people like Senhor José everywhere, who fill their time, or what they believe to be their ...

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design is so important because chaos is so hard

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans pr...

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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exce...

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Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from...

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But isn't it enough that I just don't want it?""No," said Fiona. "It isn't enough.""Why not?""Well, ...

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War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is...

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Libba BrayThe Sweet Far Thing

It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by st...

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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

Stories, no matter how simple, can be vehicles of truth; can be, in fact, icons. It's no coincidence...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyr...

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My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back ...

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Where the Divine and the Human Meet" shows how important it is to meet the world with the creativity...

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At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, b...

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Mircea EliadeThe Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite pre...

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An infinite, inscrutable blackness has annihilated sight! Where is our universe? All crumbled away f...

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Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven Gables

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at t...

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From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me th...

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We are children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corrupti...

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(Q: From an outsider’s perspective, what you call “chaos magick” has a lot of rules, discipline, and...

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There is no part of one’s beliefs about oneself which cannot be modified by sufficiently powerful ps...

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Do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ...

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No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of ever...

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Philip K. DickGalactic Pot-Healer

The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order?

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Philip K. DickPhilip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal s...

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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I s...

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A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likel...

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that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.

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Robert HughesThe Shock of the New

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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democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to t...

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

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

A society is an organic system that develops spontaneously, governed by myriad interactions and adju...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middl...

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These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, nea...

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Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominan...

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We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a t...

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The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which ...

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Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos were lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a ...

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The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

There was simply no peace to be had no matter where you hid yourself away. Even in a northern border...

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The clown is a creature of chaos. His appearance is an affront to our sense of dignity, his actions ...

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Tom RobbinsAnother Roadside Attraction

Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with...

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In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--arti...

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Tom RobbinsEven Cowgirls Get the Blues

I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a...

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The chaos lies all within.

Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is...

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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without d...

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The law of chaos is the law of ideas,Of improvisations and seasons of belief.Ideas are men. The mass...

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Wallace StevensThe Collected Poems

If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space.

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes co...

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That feeling. That's the real difference in a life. People who live on solid ground, underneath safe...

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We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relati...

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Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when w...

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In the immediate vicinity, there might well be stability and peace. In the garden, a breeze may be s...

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Alain de BottonThe News: A User's Manual

Deep down, nature is inherently peaceful, calm and beautiful. The universe as a whole is perfect. Th...

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Great leader knows that under the turmoil of chaos and change, there is a beauty of patterns and des...

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Amit RayMindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had...

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What you call your lies are fiction and myths. The art of creating a disguise can be as beautiful as...

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We are punctual, a stressed, marked characteristic. We need order around us, in the house, in the li...

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And this notion of the meaninglessness of our lives here began to enflame us.I took up the theme aga...

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

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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.

The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist...

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The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds...

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But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then n...

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It will never end.Till the world ends in the chaos of Ragnarok, we will fight for our women, for our...

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History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

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History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

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History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

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History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

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History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

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History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

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