Chaos Quotes
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Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.
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...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though is was a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion.
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Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.
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Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.
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Instead of focusing on the work, you focus on the entropy and the chaos and you get a byproduct.
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It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
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A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos.
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America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
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I found it was remarkable. It was so evocative. I feel like it captured the urgency and the chaos, but through the silence of it, through the slowness of it. That's what I loved the most about Citizenfour.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.
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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
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Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own.
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You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?
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Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.
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Coming from a background as unique as mine, the first challenge is being able to identify chaos as chaos. For the first half of my life, I interpreted chaos as normal. Today, I am aware that I have triggers: a default way of thinking that is often not relative to the immediate moment. Therefore, in the midst of chaos, I have learned to relinquish all my premature cognitive commitments and become present.
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A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exit in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points of actions, cross sections cut through actions, snapshots. Neither can a pure verb, an abstract motion, be possible in nature. The eye sees noun and verb as one, things in motion, motion in things.
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Maybe it's only those who've made such chaos of their lives who can understand the heights and depths of God's mercy.
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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
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I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky.
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I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery, but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing.
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You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.
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One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage...
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You worry that if you lower your guard, even for one second, your whole world will disintegrate into chaos.
