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Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos. -- John Marshall
In the never-ending battle between order and chaos, clutter sides with chaos every time. Anything that you possess that does not add to your life or your happiness eventually becomes a burden. -- John Robbins
Even if these stories are 3,000 years old, there's still so much about the characters, about the dilemmas, about their understanding of the universe that still resonates. The whole idea of order and chaos, which is really central to the ancient Egyptian understanding of the world, is still very much with us. -- Rick Riordan
We live in two worlds - order and chaos. In the world of order, we plan, reflect, and think about what to do next. In the world of chaos, things happen, we get things done, yet unpredictability persists. In one world, we like to think we are in control. In the other, we mingle together with increasing complexity, conflict, and uncertainty. -- David Spangler
Mathematicians are beginning to view order and chaos as two distinct manifestations of an underlying determinism. And neither state exists in isolation. The typical system can exist in a variety of states, some ordered, some chaotic. Instead of two opposed polarities, there is a continuous spectrum. As harmony and discord combine in musical beauty, so order and chaos combine in mathematical [and physical] beauty. -- Ian Stewart
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. -- Will Durant
Of course, chaos can lead to failure and extinction. But so can order. Far more nations, people, and ideas die of atrophy than die from revolution. Both order and chaos are necessary ingredients for long run success - for sustainability. -- John Ikerd
No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so. -- Stafford Cripps
Because. Because in all the breadth of time, in all of this scattered light and infinite darkness, in all these millions of years and circumstances and changes and challenges, in the order and chaos, it's brought me to you. How can you see something like that as anything but beautiful? -- Brandon R. Chinn
My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order. -- Philippe Petit
Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why? -- Kerry Thornley
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. -- Hermann Hesse
There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman. -- Pythagoras
Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well? -- Marie Windsor
Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos. -- William Irwin Thompson
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous. -- Yehudi Menuhin
Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which may expose the whole area to chaos. -- Ali Abdullah Saleh
Work is a way of bringing order to chaos, and there's a basic satisfaction in seeing that we are able to make something a little more coherent by the end of the day. -- Alain de Botton
I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry. -- Helen Reddy
All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. -- Otto Dix
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. -- Melody Beattie
You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to. -- Rick Riordan
Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished. -- James T. Walsh
We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not. -- Vladimir Putin
Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand what I've experienced, what I've felt and seen, so it becomes a little easier to handle. On the other hand, I don't want it to be just a cathartic experience, an outpouring of grief or whatever it is. -- Miriam Toews
Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards. But I find all states of nature beautiful, and because I want to delight in my garden, not rule it, I just accept my yen to tame the chaos on one day and let the Japanese beetles run riot on the next. -- Diane Ackerman
Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit. -- Henry Adams
Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order. -- Hermann Hesse
Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos. -- George Peabody
Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. -- Oscar Wilde
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order. -- Rowan Williams
Chaos is order yet undeciphered. -- Jose Saramago
Music creates order out of chaos. -- Yehudi Menuhin
Chaos and Order combined equal Balance. -- Richard Garriott
Order is just chaos waiting to happen -- Andrew James White
Justice is restoring order, not furthering chaos. -- Peter Burke
Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success. -- Franklin P. Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit -- Henry Brooks Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. -- Henry Adams
Sport is imposing order on what was chaos. -- Antony Starr
Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered -- Jose Saramago
We adore chaos because we love to produce order. -- M. C. Escher
Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains. --
I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. -- Connie Nielsen
Art is order, made out of the chaos of life. -- Saul Bellow
I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention. -- John le Carre
Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm. -- M. C. Escher
Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed. -- Dean Koontz
I will bring order from chaos and light from darkness. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos. -- Dean Koontz
Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rythm -- M. C. Escher
Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges. -- Laozi
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order. -- Wislawa Szymborska
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos -- Will Durant
You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow. -- John C. Lilly
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. -- Theodor Adorno
Use design as a framework to bring order out of chaos. -- Nita Leland
We call interconnected order beautiful. When interrupted, we call it chaos. -- Vanna Bonta
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. -- Stephen Sondheim
Chaos is the law of nature, order is the dream of man... -- Anonymous
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. -- Kerry Thornley
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. -- Henry Adams
Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos. -- Sydney J. Harris
I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head. -- Dwight Yoakam
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. -- Carl Jung
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order. -- Novalis
Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order. -- Immanuel Kant
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. -- George Santayana
-There must be balance. Action and reaction. Chaos and order. Death and life. -- Lanie Bross
The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos. -- Ilya Prigogine
Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites. Chaos and Order combined equal balance. -- Richard Garriott
Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos. -- Tom Stoppard
For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life. -- May Sarton
Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything. -- Bill Griffith
The only order in the universe is just a cycle of calm and chaos. -- Toba Beta
One of the attributes of love . . . is to bring harmony and order out of chaos. -- Molly Haskell
If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words. -- Patricia McCormick
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. -- Steve Martin
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. -- Balthus
The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning. -- Arthur Miller
Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos. -- George Eliot
The tonal is the sense of place. It is order and reason in a world of chaos. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos. -- Julianne Moore
What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos. -- Rajneesh
She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach. -- Robert M. Drake
I'm pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death. -- Bonnie Jo Campbell
The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world. -- John Maynard Keynes
Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life. -- Robert Hayden
Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order -- Norman Spinrad
Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
Chaos at the bottom means order at the top. Order at the bottom means chaos at the top. -- Stephen K. Hayes
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence. -- Daniel Barenboim
Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives. -- Bernard Crick
As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe. -- Rick Riordan
Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order. -- Frank Herbert
Using the Lean Startup approach, companies can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously. -- Eric Ries
There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Chaos is not the lack of order, it is merely the absence of order, that the observer is used to. -- Mamur Mustapha
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. -- James A. Garfield
I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality. -- Ralph Gibson
That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos. -- Ursula Nordstrom
Every man is born to the world of chaos and all his life passes with struggle to create an order! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized. -- Terry Pratchett
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary. -- Theodor Adorno
Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness. -- James Stephens
Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress. -- Michael Jackson
At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be chaos, if you can study it and it has an order. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
What is shape without form; What is chaos without order; What is life without death; What is friendship without love; What isn't? -- Scott Watson
What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order. -- Katherine Paterson
Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane -- Hope Edelman
We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about. -- Rick Riordan
The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos. -- George Iles
Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. -- Robert Breault
The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict. -- Rick Perry
Future strong is being focused enough and mindful enough and courageous enough to search for patterns and order when all others see chaos and noise. -- Bill Jensen
The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses. -- Isabel Allende
Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site. -- Wolf Kahn
If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order. -- Frank Herbert

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