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Chaos
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“The rules break like a thermometer, / quicksilver spills across the charted systems, / we're out in a country that has no language / no laws, we're chasing the raven and the wren / through gorges unexplored since dawn / whatever we do together is pure invention / the maps they gave us were out of date / by years ...”
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“Out of the chaos the future emerges in harmony and beauty.”
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“The things we fear most in organizations — fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances — need not be signs of an impending disorder that will destroy us. Instead, fluctuations are the primary source of creativity.”
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“Catastrophe and creation are twins.”
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“Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.”
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“I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.”
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“In the biblical story of creation, chaos came before shapes and forms.”
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“I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.”
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“... chaos is the first step in the creative process.”