"Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; it is that which is creatively novel, with respect to the order with which it is interfused."
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
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