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• Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1958). “Collected works”

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• A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Civilization, Different, Violence

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• My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write in public. I bring my laptop or write freehand in notebooks. Then, I'll read through them while I exercise or walk the dog. The very last thing I do is the sitting alone at the computer part.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Notebook, Dog, Writing

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Atheist, Mean

  "Christopher Hitchens On Mother Theresa". Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 16, Number 4, www.webpages.uidaho.edu.

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• Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha, Lao Tzu, or Jesus, although their teachings were greatly misunderstood, especially when they turned into organized religion. They were the first manifestations of the flowering of human consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Teacher, Jesus, Teaching

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Opponents, Defeat, Coups

  "'They Were Truly Idiots'". Interview with Matthias Schepp and Christian Neef, www.spiegel.de. August 16, 2011.

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• I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

  Erica Jong

  Hate, Thinking, Warfare

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

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• I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.

  Erica Jong

  Believe, People, Trying

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

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• Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Book, Solidarity, Reader

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• The idea of political content is irrelevant. Content is irrelevant. I always tell my students, "Never forget you're writing words! You know, word one, word two, word three, word four. The words have to be organized. Nothing else does."

  Dave Hickey

  Writing, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.

  Agnes Varda

  War, Party, Exhibitions

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Rights, People

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• I think being organized should be in your lifestyle. I run a few different businesses, so I have to be organized. And I think everyone around me will also feel organized. To have chaos going on, it just doesn't work.

  Olivia Palermo

  Running, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• The word "collective" is not so often used because it has been basically used by socialists and communists and has a different history. The word "cooperative" means the workplace itself is organized cooperatively, rather than in the conventional capitalistic, hierarchical form.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Mean, Different, Workplace

  "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.

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• Moving to a cooperatively organized enterprise is one of the best ways to really do something about unequal distribution of wealth.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Moving, Distribution Of Wealth, Way

  "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.

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• It's ridiculous that our solar system, not to mention the universe outside of that, is extraordinarily well organized, to the point where we can predict 70 years away when a comet is coming.

  Benjamin Carson

  Years, Ridiculous, Comets

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The street is where we all learn. I played organized football growing up as well, but when that was over, I went right to the street. I remember twisting my ankles, breaking my thumb, I hurt everything when I was little playing street ball.

  Champ Bailey

  Football, Hurt, Growing Up

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• I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks who don't care for organized religion in a different way.

  Uwem Akpan

  Religious, Writing, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

  Anne Rice

  Moving, Confusion, Feelings

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• I no longer represent any organized religion. I'm not Catholic. I'm not Christian. I'm saying this because I have to be an outsider for Christ.

  Anne Rice

  Christian, Catholic, Outsiders

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• I cannot mislead people into believing that I support organized religion. In Jesus' name, I cannot be complicit with many of the things organized religion does.

  Anne Rice

  Jesus, Believe, Names

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• A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none.

  Adam Smith

  Reality, Government, Criminals

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• Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

  Voltaire

  Reality, Civilization, Risk

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• Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.

  Brandon Thomas

  Want, Lifestyle, Made

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• I travel a lot. If you look at my suitcase, everything is extremely well-packed and well-folded; people who travel with me are impressed at how organized I am. Some would refer to me as a maniac for this.

  Joel Robuchon

  People, Looks, Suitcases

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