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• ... not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled, organized, not part of the world's problems, but part of its cure. ... of being creative individuals.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Uplifting, Mean, Achievement

  Norman Vincent Peale (1982). “The amazing results of positive thinking”, Fawcett

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• Journalism is organized gossip.

  Edward Eggleston

  Funny, Gossip, Journalism

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• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership.'

  Will Rogers

  Tombstone, Party, Government

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• Behind the murder of millions of Negroes annually in Africa is the well organized system of exploitation by the alien intruders who desire to rob Africa of every bit of its wealth for the satisfaction of their race and the upkeep of their bankrupt European countries.

  Marcus Garvey

  Country, Race, Desire

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.60, The Majority Press

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• I was always pretty organized in high school and my mother, she always pushed me to just overachieve, both my parents. (They) let me know education is key and without it nowadays, you probably wouldn't be able to get a good job or have a decent living.

  Jeremih

  Mother, Jobs, School

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• War is nothing but organized murder.

  Harry Patch

  War, Murder

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• Party is organized opinion.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Politics, Opinion

  Speech at Oxford, 25 November 1864, in 'The Times' 26 November 1864

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• It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable response to human frailty and human differences. This goes against every human instinct, but organized religion has reorganized human thoughts. Some humans have even been turned against their own instinct for survival. And so people go around maiming and killing each other, because they've been told quite directly that this is what God does to them--and what God wants them to do to each other.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Differences, People, Survival

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• If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

  Arthur Miller

  Communication, Responsibility, Expression

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• Some people, who are deeply involved in an organized, traditional religion, find it very difficult to accept that their way isn't the only way. And that their sacred text isn't the only text and it must be taken literally.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Taken, People, Sacred

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Education is this funny thing. You deal for several years with organized information, and then you go out into the world and you never see any of that ever again. There's no more organized information.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Years, Funny Things, World

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• Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities, is not exercising compulsion, it is evident that the more varied and comprehensive the regulation becomes, the more the state becomes a despotic power as against the individual. For the fragment of control over the government which he exercises through his vote is in no effective sense proportionate to the authority exercised over him by the government.

  Walter Lippmann

  Exercise, Government, Minorities

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• Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.

  Walter Lippmann

  Strong, Skills, People

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Community, Ruins, Mankind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1988). “Shelley's Prose: Or the Trumpet of a Prophecy”

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• In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of the new view of Nature, and described it as "a brutal philosophy to wit, there is no God, and the ape is our Adam." ...These attacks from such eminent sources set the clerical fashion for several years.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Fashion, Philosophy, Views

  Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.71, Transaction Publishers

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• Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.

  Erving Goffman

  Principles, Way, Moral

  "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life". Book by Erving Goffman, p. 13, 1959.

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• In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or it is expressed only in a sublimated and indirect way, through the mediation of some religious imagine in the love of whom the members unite and whose all-embracing love they are supposed to imitate in their attitude towards each other. It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.

  Theodor Adorno

  Religious, Attitude, Army

  "Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda". "The Essential Frankfurt School Reader", 1982.

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• A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules prescribed to it by organized knowledge. It ... rends the veil with which society conceals them, and perceives them anew.

  Theodor Adorno

  Thinking, Veils, Approach

  Theodor W. Adorno (2012). “Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords”, p.13, Columbia University Press

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• When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Feminism, Activism

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.33, Vintage

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• Sex was like Disneyland to her: an allotment of organized wonders and legal mischief.

  Martin Amis

  Sex, Wonder, Allotments

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• Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic civilization for the benefit of material security in spite of occasional twinges of conscience and moral protests. The result has been that today much of organized religion is materialistically solvent but spiritually bankrupt.

  Saul Alinsky

  Civilization, People, Religion

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• Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact that the welfare of business rests upon the welfare of the consumers of a nation; that business or free enterprise will function in a democracy only so long as the democracy functions.

  Saul Alinsky

  Long, Democracy, Would Be

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• Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. Mere orderliness leads to increasing impoverishment and finally to the lowest possible level of structure, no longer clearly distinguishable from chaos, which is the absence of order. A counterprinciple is needed, to which orderliness is secondary. It must supply what is to be ordered.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Men, Order, Levels

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• Christianity is no mere scheme of doctrine or of ethical practice, but is instead a kind of miracle, a power out of nature and above, descending into it; a historically supernatural movement on the world, that is visibly entered into it, and organized to be an institution in the person of Jesus Christ.

  Horace Bushnell

  Jesus, Practice, Miracle

  Horace Bushnell (2001). “The Character of Jesus”, p.7, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all times and places stands against him as an entity with objectives and values of its own. In turn, since becoming aware of the organized body of artworks as the obstacle to his own aesthetic self-affirmation, the artist is pushed toward anti-intellectualism and willful dismissal of the art of the past.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Past, Self

  Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.137, University of Chicago Press

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