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“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.” Henry Adams, “The Education of Henry Adams” - 1906

“You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.” Neil Gaiman, “American Gods” - 2001

“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.” Henry Adams, “The Education of Henry Adams” - 1906

“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Survivor” - 1999

“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” - 1891

“Thereafter, I showed how the greatest part of the matter of this chaos must, in accordance with these laws, dispose and arrange itself in such a way as to present the appearance of heavens; how in the meantime some of its parts must compose an...” René Descartes, “Discourse on the Method” - 1637

“Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.” Henry Miller, “Tropic of Cancer” - 1934

“The Buddha knew one thing science didn't prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.” John Green, “Looking for Alaska” - 2005

“Our real discoveries come from chaos . . . from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Invisible Monsters” - 1999

“I wanted to give up the idea I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Invisible Monsters” - 1999

“We were ruinous together . . . But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?” Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin” - 2000

“Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O anything, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness! serious vanity! Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Cat's Cradle” - 1963

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