| "Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy." »Hesiod |
| "We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind." »William Shakespeare |
| "Two dangers constantly threaten the world order and disorder." »Paul Valery |
| "If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction." »Arthur Koestler |
| "Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains." »Helen Gahagan Douglas |
| "So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation." »Michel de Montaigne |
| "The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved." »Confucius |
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