"organized chaos"

[Jonathan Lighter]

1913  C. D. Penn _The Navy under the Early Stuarts and its Influence on
English History_ iii (Leighton Buzzard: Faith Press):  It was not the men
that were at fault but the administration - that system of organized chaos
which for corruption and malversation could scarcely be equalled, never
perhaps be exceeded.

JL
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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