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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.


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


Stephen Sondheim
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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
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Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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Order is heaven's first law.


Alexander Pope
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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
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I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.
Chuck Palahniuk
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There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.
Andrew Pyper
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Justice is merely incidental to law and order.


J. Edgar Hoover
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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
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Law and order in our communities doesn't arise spontaneously.


Tom Cotton
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International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
Norman Finkelstein
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Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.


John Dryden
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.
Dmitri Mendeleev
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Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.


Tony Blair
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The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.
Rudolf Arnheim
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.


Barbra Streisand
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I've always been a big fan of 'Law & Order: SVU.' I think Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni are just incredible.
Reid Scott
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