Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
– Stephen Sondheim
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- Freedom without order leads to chaos. We must have order around our freedom. It is God’s Word that sets the boundaries for our freedom. – DeBorrah K Ogans
- [denial] is an attempt to bring order to our lives. – Mark Galli
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- Women will buy products in an attempt to become the impossible goal. Men will buy products in an attempt to mate with the impossible goal. – David McRaney
- Don’t live your life like an attempt, because if you fail there is no second attempt. – Amit Kalantri
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- The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity. – Criss Jami
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- Peace is not the absence of chaos or conflict, but rather finding yourself in the midst of that chaos and remaining calm in your heart. – John Mroz
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- If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn’t a single war started by anarchists? – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. – Henry Miller
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- Science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience. – R Buckminster Fuller
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- The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order? – Philip K
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- The only order in the universe is just a cycle of calm and chaos. – Toba Beta
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- Prayer is your attempt to bring your will and desires in line with God’s will. – Jim George
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- Let us see what tomorrow will bring us? Will it be joy and triumph, chaos and glory, love and growth, or victory and success? – Ana Monnar