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Letter "D" » disorder
«If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.»
«It is best to do things systematically, since we are only humans, and disorder is our worst enemy»
«. . . That's what my work is about, the collapse of everything, of meaning, of language, of values, of art, disorder and dislocation wherever you look, entropy drowning everything in sight . . . that's what I have to go into before all my work is misunderstood and distorted and, and turned into a cartoon . . .»
Author: William Gaddis
| Keywords:
cartoon, cartoons, collapse, dislocation, disorder, drowning, entropy, in sight, misunderstood
«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»
Author: Arthur Koestler
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afflicted, built in, conclusion, disorder, drives, mental disorder, mess, self-destruction, The Conclusion
«I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| Keywords:
activity, Chaos, disorder, disordered, disorders, especially, interested, mental, mental disorder, physical, revolt, revolted, revolts, Road to Freedom, starting, The Mental
«As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.»
«IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If man's notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from, and nowise dependent on, their consequences --then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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adj, dependent, dependent on, disorder, expediency, immoral, inexpedient, instances, in the long run, moral character, moral philosophy, notions, nowise, originated, regard to, right and wrong, with regard to
«I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road towards freedom - external freedom is a way to bring about internal freedom.»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
activity, breaking, breaking away, break away, bring about, Chaos, disorder, disordered, disorders, especially, established, external, interested, internal, overthrowing, overthrows, revolt, revolted, revolts, Road to Freedom
«Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| About:
Confusion
| Keywords:
bidding, confined, disorder, fled, infinitude, infinitudes, ruled, rules of order, shone, sprung, uproar
«Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Equality,
Government
| Keywords:
charming, disorder, dispensed, dispenses, dispensing, equality, equals, form of government, variety
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