"Life sucks order from a sea of disorder."

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Source : James Gleick (2011). “Chaos: Making a New Science”, p.326, Open Road Media

James Gleick

#Order Quotes #Sea Quotes #Life Sucks Quotes

“I'm a terrible sentence finisher. I think that's why I'm a songwriter. When you write a song, there are no rules, and I think that I talk as if there are no rules. But then I run this great risk of no one understanding me at all.”
“I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.”
“Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.”
“We have a name for things that don't copy themselves: dead.”
“Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. To know the truth is to appropriate it, for it is not mainly reflection and theory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation.”
“Drug addicts, when they are in their addiction, are selfish.”
“People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about.”
“For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January.”

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