#orderly

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

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Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

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I like things to be orderly. ↗

— David Lynch

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Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work. ↗

— Clive Barker

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I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

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We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. ↗

— George Mikes

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