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“Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.”
William Shakespeare
,
Twelfth Night
“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”
Henry Adams
,
The Education of Henry Adams
“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
Henry Adams
,
The Education of Henry Adams
“Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos.”
Carl Sagan
,
Cosmos
“the order of things must not be transformed, even if we must fervently hope for its transformation.”
Umberto Eco
,
The Name of the Rose
“soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they’ve been given.”
Orson Scott Card
,
Ender's Game
“why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
,
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.”
Henry Miller
,
Tropic of Capricorn
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