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Order: Sanity's Silent Symphony.
Order is the arrangement of elements into a comprehensible and harmonious system, providing structure, predictability, and stability. It's meaningful to human life because it allows us to understand and navigate the world, fostering cooperation, innovation, and a sense of safety and control amidst inherent chaos.
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# Order & Officers of the Order of Canada
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Bruce Cockburn" (Sourced, Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu (1999))
“Last Night of the World”
— Bruce Cockburn
Poets from Canada
People from Ottawa
Guitarists from Canada
Folk singers
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Douglas Coupland" (Quotes, Microserfs (1995))
“Language is such a technology.”
— Douglas Coupland
1961 births
Living people
Novelists from Canada
Playwrights from CanadaContext: • Source: Wikiquote: "Douglas Coupland" (Quotes, Girlfriend in a Coma (1998))
“Scrape. Feel. Dig. Believe. Ask.”
— Douglas Coupland
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Lee Maracle" (Quotes, Interviews, with Hazlitt (2017))
“our body has a memory of all time”
— Lee Maracle
1950 births
2021 deaths
Officers of the Order of Canada
“Welfare mothers make better lovers.”
— Neil Young
Anti-war activists
Activists from Canada
Rock singers# Order & Living people
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Geddy Lee" (Quotes, Global Bass interview (2000):
"The Consummate Geddy Lee Interview")
"The Consummate Geddy Lee Interview")
“I love to write. It's my first love.”
— Geddy Lee
Musicians from Canada
Singer-songwriters from Canada
People from OntarioContext: • Source: Wikiquote: "Douglas Coupland" (Quotes, Shampoo Planet (1992))
“You still don't know what you do well.”
— Douglas Coupland
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Douglas Coupland" (Quotes, Hey Nostradamus! (2003))
“The heart of a man is like deep water.”
— Douglas Coupland
“He tried to do his best but he could not.”
— Neil Young
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Douglas Coupland" (Quotes, Hey Nostradamus! (2003))
“I hear that God has a really bad haircut.”
— Douglas Coupland
# Order & People from Ontario
Context: • Interview with Lorie Conway (1997) from Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith (2004) ed. James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield. Conway saw these words on a framed needlepoint, entitled "Galbraith's First Law," at Galbraith's home
• Source: Wikiquote: "John Kenneth Galbraith" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "John Kenneth Galbraith" (Quotes)
“Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.”
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Academics from Canada
Academics from the United States
Economists from Canada
Economists from the United StatesContext: • Chapter X, The Impeccable System, p. 118
• Source: Wikiquote: "John Kenneth Galbraith" (Quotes, Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975))
• Source: Wikiquote: "John Kenneth Galbraith" (Quotes, Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975))
“Power is as power does.”
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Geddy Lee" (Quotes, Global Bass interview (2000):
"The Consummate Geddy Lee Interview")
"The Consummate Geddy Lee Interview")
“Music is all about wanting to be better at it.”
— Geddy Lee
Context: • Chapter 11, Section II, p. 125
• Source: Wikiquote: "John Kenneth Galbraith" (Quotes, The Affluent Society (1958))
• Source: Wikiquote: "John Kenneth Galbraith" (Quotes, The Affluent Society (1958))
“One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.”
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Context: • Chapter 1, p. 27
• Source: Wikiquote: "John Kenneth Galbraith" (Quotes, The Age of Uncertainty (1977))
• Source: Wikiquote: "John Kenneth Galbraith" (Quotes, The Age of Uncertainty (1977))
“Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.”
— John Kenneth Galbraith
# Order & Non-fiction authors from Canada
Context: • Endpaper Pages, p. 314.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Alberto Manguel" (Quotes, A History of Reading (1996))
• Source: Wikiquote: "Alberto Manguel" (Quotes, A History of Reading (1996))
“Every text assumes a reader.”
— Alberto Manguel
Critics
Non-fiction authors from Canada
Novelists from ArgentinaContext: • Chapter 1, p. 36
• Source: Wikiquote: "John Kenneth Galbraith" (Quotes, The Age of Uncertainty (1977))
• Source: Wikiquote: "John Kenneth Galbraith" (Quotes, The Age of Uncertainty (1977))
“Economics is not an exact science.”
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Context: • Chapter 4, p. 111
• Source: Wikiquote: "John Kenneth Galbraith" (Quotes, The Age of Uncertainty (1977))
• Source: Wikiquote: "John Kenneth Galbraith" (Quotes, The Age of Uncertainty (1977))
“Conscience is better served by a myth.”
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Context: • Attributed without source
• Source: Wikiquote: "John Kenneth Galbraith" (Quotes, Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975))
• Source: Wikiquote: "John Kenneth Galbraith" (Quotes, Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975))
“Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money”
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Context: • Private Reading, p. 152.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Alberto Manguel" (Quotes, A History of Reading (1996))
• Source: Wikiquote: "Alberto Manguel" (Quotes, A History of Reading (1996))
“One can transform a place by reading in it.”
— Alberto Manguel
# Order & Screenwriters from Canada
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Douglas Coupland" (Quotes, Life After God (1994))
“Technology does not always equal progress.”
— Douglas Coupland
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Douglas Coupland" (Quotes, Girlfriend in a Coma (1998))
“There's nothing at the center of what we do.”
— Douglas Coupland
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Douglas Coupland" (Quotes, JPod (2006))
“It can be really fun to go down with the ship.”
— Douglas Coupland
Context: • World On A String
• Source: Wikiquote: "Neil Young" (Song lyrics, Tonight's the Night (1975))
• Source: Wikiquote: "Neil Young" (Song lyrics, Tonight's the Night (1975))
“And the world on a string doesn't mean a thing.”
— Neil Young
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Douglas Coupland" (Quotes, Generation X (1991))
“I don't want dainty little moments of insight …”
— Douglas Coupland
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