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"We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind." »William Shakespeare
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"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy." »Hesiod
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"Two dangers constantly threaten the world order and disorder." »Paul Valery
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"Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control." »Cyril Connolly
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"Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company." »Jeremy Collier
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"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
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"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
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"It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do." »C. C. Colton
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"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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"The most violent element in society is ignorance." »Emma Goldman
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"Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work." »Gustave Flaubert
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"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes." »Daniel Defoe
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"America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists." »Barack Obama
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." »Albert Einstein
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"The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class." »Paul Fussell
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"You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture." »Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us." »Margery Allingham
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"Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms." »William Bradford
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"The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves." »Joseph Addison
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." »James Madison
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"We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart." »Honore' de Balzac
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"All writers-all people-have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory." »Sir V Pritchett
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"If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. (Handwritten statement found in her residence)" »Indira Nehru Gandhi
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"It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state." »Thomas Elliot
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"An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction" »Hoshang N. Akhtar
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"It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state." »T.S. Elliot
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"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." »Albert Einstein
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