Arrangements Quotes - Page 4

• The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement.

  Sheldon Richman

  Pain, Organization, Political

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• Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.

  Jenny Shipley

  Decision, Desire, Males

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• God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

  Rex Stout

  Equality, Trying, Would Be

  Rex Stout (2010). “The League of Frightened Men”, p.131, Bantam

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• If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Power, Weakness, Compromise

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2017). “Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945”, p.551, Random House

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• Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records

  Duncan Sheik

  Doe, Records, Woods

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• The [Hobby Lobby Supreme Court] ruling raises the question of why, uniquely in the industrialized world, Americans have for so long favored an arrangement in health insurance that endows their employers with the quasi-parental power to choose the options that employees may be granted in the market for health insurance.

  Uwe Reinhardt

  Long, Hobbies, World

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• I now believe there is a God...I now think it [the evidence] does point to a creative Intelligence almost entirely because of the DNA investigations. What I think the DNA material has done is that it has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinarily diverse elements to work together.

  Antony Flew

  Believe, Thinking, Dna

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• To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe

  Etienne Gilson

  Law, Numbers, Mind

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• Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as a form of power and an access to reality. Prefer what is positive and multiple, difference over uniformity, flows over unities, mobile arrangements over systems. Believe that what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

  Michel Foucault

  Believe, Reality, Law

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• We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Stars, Tree, Atoms

  Alan Dean Foster (2013). “Glory Lane”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• Private appropriation of the Earth’s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime against humanity, but the comparative few who are beneficiaries of this iniquitous social arrangement, far from being viewed as criminals meriting punishment, are the exalted rulers of society, and the people they exploit gladly render them homage and obeisance.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Mean, Punishment, People

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• Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour

  Henri Matisse

  Organization, Trying, Sound

  Volkmar Essers, Henri Matisse (1993). “Matisse”, Taschen

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• The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Home, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.23, 谷月社

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• No measure can be more desirable, whether viewed with an eye to its intrinsic importance, or to the general sentiment and wish of the Nation than to establish a systematic and effectual arrangement for the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt.

  George Washington

  Eye, Wish, Redemption

  Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison, George Washington (1991). “The real George Washington”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay. The upshot is that a mediocre-or-worse CEO - aided by his handpicked VP of human relations and a consultant from the ever-accommodating firm of Ratchet, Ratchet and Bingo - all too often receives gobs of money from an ill-designed compensation arrangement.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Bingo, Gob

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• We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion and magnitude of the orbs, of a kind that is not possible to obtain in any other way.

  Johannes Kepler

  Way, Orbs, Kind

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• I have a wife and anything. That's the arrangement we have. I have a wife, and she's cool. And also I have anything I want.

  Nick Thune

  Wife, Want

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• Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

  John Dewey

  Education, Mean, Science

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.

  Joshua Bell

  Writing, Wannabes, Composer

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• To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country and to mankind. The interest of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it; and as none but bad men would justify it in abuse, none but traitors would barter it away for their own personal advantage.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Peace, War

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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• Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level expressions: religion, economic and political arrangements, psychological and anthro-pological theories, and views of human nature, our future destiny, globalization, and even architectural patterns and sports preferences. We all live in flow states; there is always new wine, always old wineskins. We, indeed, find ourselves pursuing a neverending quest.

  Don Edward Beck

  Sports, Wine, Destiny

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• Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by babbling brooks and shady woods - in short, a machine that will discriminately select its subject and, by means of a skillful arrangement of springs and screws, compose its motif, expose the plate, develop, print, and even mount and frame the result of its excursion, so that there will be nothing for us to do but to send it to the Royal Photographic Society's exhibition and gratefully to receive the 'Royal Medal'.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Spring, Mean

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• All the worth which the human being possesses all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State... For Truth is the Unity of the universal and subjective Will; and the Universal is to be found in the State, in its laws, its universal and rational arrangements. The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on Earth. We have in it, therefore, the object of History in a more definite shape than before; that in which Freedom obtains objectivity...

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Spiritual, Reality, Objectivity

  "Lectures on the Philosophy of History, Volume 1". Book by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1832.

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• But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man.

  Galileo Galilei

  Men, Two, Secret

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• The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Agitation, Doe, Littles

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