natural order of things

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I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road, As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland; Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance, By pulling off flesh from the living planet; As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration. Theodore Roethke

Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things. Douglas Adams

All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things. Gunnar Myrdal

A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good. Benjamin Hoff

The rights of the people are every thing, as they ought to be in the true and natural order of things. Edmund Burke

And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things. Nicholas Sparks

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