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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
The Internet has no such organization - files are made available at random locations. To search through this chaos, we need smart tools, programs that find resources for us.
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Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil, 1995
Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act III, sc. 3

Results from Cole's Quotables:

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
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Kerry Thornley, Principia Discordia, 5th edition
Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
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From the I Ching
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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Edith Hamilton
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

We must avoid here two complementary errors: on the one hand that the world has a unique, intrinsic, pre-existing structure awaiting our grasp; and on the other hand that the world is in utter chaos. The first error is that of the student who marvelled at how the astronomers could find out the true names of distant constellations. The second error is that of the Lewis Carroll's Walrus who grouped shoes with ships and sealing wax, and cabbages with kings...
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R. Abel, Man is the Measure, New York: Free Press, 1976
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