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Order is everything in its place

• Order: A situation in which everything is arranged in its correct place.  Cambridge Dictionary
• A condition in which each thing is properly disposed with reference to other things and to its purpose; methodical or harmonious arrangement.  Oxford Dictionary
• A condition of methodical or prescribed arrangement among component parts such that proper functioning or appearance is achieved.  American Heritage Dictionary
• A place for everything, everything in its place. Benjamin Franklin
• Divine order,  Chaos,  Control

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Order is being clear what you want and where you’re going

• To know where one is going and what one wishes – this is order … to organize one’s life to distribute one’s time … all this belong to and is included in the word order. Henri F. Amiel

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Order is the opposite of chaos

• Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm. C. Escher
• Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites. Richard Garriott
• Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. Will Durant
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• Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion. Samuel R. Delany
• Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order. Frank Herbert
• Order is a great person’s need and their true well-being. Henri Frederic Amiel
• That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. Freda Adler
• We adore chaos because we love to produce order. C. Escher

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Many strongly advocate the merits and rewards of order …

• Order is a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wing, teaching simplicity to sing. Anna Branch
• Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm. C. Escher
• Order is the framer of great things. Edward Counsel
• Good order is the foundation of all things. Edmund Burke
• Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Eliza Cook
• The friend of order has made half his way to virtue. Johann Caspar Lavater
• Order is heaven’s first law. Order is earth’s first law, too. Brian Tracy
• Order is heaven’s first law. Alexander Pope
• Chaos is God’s body. Order is the Devil’s chains. John Updike

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… while warning that disorder is the enemy

• Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive. Eliphas Levi
• It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy. Hesiod

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Order frees us up

• For the first twenty-five years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next twenty-five years, I wanted order. For the next twenty- five years, I realized that order is freedom. Winston Churchill
• Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization somehow releases or frees you to operate more effectively. Larry King
• Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. Flaubert
• Freedom

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Order brings an inner sense of peace

• By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered. Marcus Aurelius
• Nothing brings order to a disordered mind like making a decision and letting it stand. Tony Robbins
• The unorganized mind will always be restless until its content is reordered. Ervin Seale
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Order provides a greater sense of control

• We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order. Margaret J. Wheatley
• Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. Denis Diderot
• Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization somehow releases or frees you to operate more effectively. Larry King
• When I cannot bear outer pressures any more, I begin to put order in my belongings… As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects. Anaïs Nin
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Order is the first step towards mastery of a subject

• Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. Thomas Mann
• You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown. Thomas Mann
• Mastery

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Order has a beauty to it

• Order is the shape upon which beauty depends! Pearl S. Buck
• Order and disorder’, said the speaker, ‘they each have their beauty.’ Orson Scott Card
• Beauty

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Too much order stifles life and creativity

• Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry B. Adams

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Some advocate the need for a bit of chaos in our lives …

• Chaos is a friend of mine. Bob Dylan
• Disorder, chaos, anarchy: now that’s fun! David J. Schow
• Freedom is just chaos, with better lighting. Alan Dean Foster
• Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself. Emile Cioran
• You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche

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… especially when things become rigid and sterile and need shaking up a bit

• Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities — the political, the religious, the educational authorities — who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing — forming in our minds — their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself. Timothy Leary
• In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings–artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers–to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption. Tom Robbins

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Some maintain that order is simply an illusion in the mind of man in a word inherently chaotic…

• In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature. Order was the dream of man. Henry Adams
• Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to orderJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The desire for order is the only order in the world. Georges Duhamel
• Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. Wilhelm Reich
• The only order in the universe is just a cycle of calm and chaos. Toba Beta
• What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. Kerry Thornley
• The order I found was the order of disorder. William Saroyan
• All order, I’ve come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world. Two snake-pits. John Gardner
• Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. Karl Pearson
• 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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… and nowhere more chaotic than in human life

• There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own. Katherine Anne Porter

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Others point to the inherent orderliness of the universe

• The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own. Paul Davies
• The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order. Henry Miller
• In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. Carl Jung
• Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty. Deepak Chopra
• Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation. Alan Lightman
• There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. Katherine Anne Porter
• Science cannot answer the deepest questions. As soon as you ask why there is something instead of nothing, you have gone beyond science.  I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos.  There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is the explanation for the miracle of existence –why there is something instead of nothing.  Allan R. Sandage

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Single out the thread of order from the tangled tapestry of life …

• The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will affect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate. Cormac Mccarthy

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… for chaos is nothing but order waiting to be deciphered

• Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. George Santayana
• Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered. José Saramago
• It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order – and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order. Douglas R. Hofstadter

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If we can’t create order in the world, we can at least create it in ourselves

• The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves. Willem de Kooning

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If we restore order within, we’re more likely to find order without

• Let a man restore order within himself, and chaos without ceases. Christian Nestell Bovee

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Inner gratitude turns chaos into order

• 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. Gratitude makes sense out of the past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie

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Create order through planning

• He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out the plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of his time is like a ray of life which darts itself through all his occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign. Victor Hugo
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Create order through slowing down

• Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry. Napoleon Bonaparte
• Slow down

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Art is bringing order out of chaos – or is it?

• Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate. Elfriede Jelinek
• Art … is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. Stephen Sondheim
• The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Theodor Adorno

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• An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. George Mikes
• I’m not really disorderly – it’s just that for my kind of order there’s never enough space. Ashleigh Brilliant
• Order is what exists before you start arranging things. Marty Rubin
• One man’s idea of perfect order is another man’s chaos. Dean Koontz
• Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. Steve Martin

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