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«Things are always best seen when they are a trifle mixed-up, a trifle disordered; the chilly administrative neatness of museums and filing cases, of statistics and cemeteries, is an inhuman and antinatural kind of order; it is, in a word, disorder.»
Author: Camilo Jose Cela
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administrative, a trifle, cases, cemeteries, chilly, disorder, disordered, filed, files, file in, filing, inhuman, mixed, Mixed Up, museums, neatness, trifle
«There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.»
Author: Jane Jacobs
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dishonest, disorder, ignoring, mask, meaner, outright, pretended, served, struggling, suppressing, ugliness
«The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.»
«Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don?t let them take you ALIVE.»
Author: Sid Vicious
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anarchy, disorder, disruption, pompous, reject, standards, trademark, trademarks, undermine, undermined, undermines, undermining
«There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.»
«They who are afflicted with it, are seized while they are walking, (more especially if it be up hill, and soon after eating) with a painful and most disagreeable sensation in the breast, which seems as if it would extinguish life, if it were to increase or to continue; but the moment they stand still, all this uneasiness vanishes. . . . In all other respects, patients are, at the beginning of this disorder, perfectly well. . . . Males are most liable to this disease, especially such as have past their fiftieth year.»
Author: William Heberden
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afflicted, disagreeable, disorder, eating disorder, extinguish, fiftieth, liable, patients, respects, seized, sensation, stand still, uneasiness
«The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, and malperformance»
«True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.»
Author: Tom Robbins
(Novelist)
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balanced, disorder, disrupt, disrupted, disrupting, expects, presumed, presumes, presume to, presuming, stability, stable, transformed, unexpected, waits
«Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
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disorder, postulate, postulates, simulate, simulated, simulating
«The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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black, blackboard, black eye, calculation, class, disorder, disordered, disorders, four, Human eye, in the middle, mathematical, middle, minus, minuses, pedagogue, Pedagogues, principle, story, sum, the class, topple, topples, unfold, unfolded
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