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Jai Ganesh

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Chaos Quotes

Chaos Quotes - I

1. The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies. - Napoleon Bonaparte

2. Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence. - Buddha

3. There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman. - Pythagoras

4. Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. - Will Durant

5. Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm. - Clint Eastwood

6. Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. - George Orwell

7. Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous. - Yehudi Menuhin

8. Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. -  Richard M. Nixon.

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