"But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes."
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"The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order."
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"Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam."
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"Out of regime change you get chaos. From the chaos you have seen repeatedly the rise of radical Islam. So we get this profession of, oh, my goodness, they want to do something about terrorism and yet they're the problem because they allow terrorism to arise out of that chaos."
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"Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord."
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"A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos."
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"God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed."
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"It was probably nothing, but it felt like the world."
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"If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos."
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"Logic taken to an extreme would always equal chaos."
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"I believe in deeply ordered chaos"
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"Even if things look very precise and very organized, chaos is always there. But I like the moment of chaos to be at the beginning. I cannot deal with the chaos at the end."
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"Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself."
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"All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority."
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"..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos."
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"When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written."
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"Chaos is order yet undeciphered."
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"The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there."
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"For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life."
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"When so many lives are at risk, when so much killing is going on, when there's so much chaos and suffering, isn't the risk warranted? ... And if we don't take the risk of coming to the conference, what do we do? We let it continue?"
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