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• I explain to everyone I deal with-co-workers, children, friends-that I'm transitionally challenged and they should call me on my cell phone if I'm even a few minutes late. Such calls often come in when I'm happily writing or rearranging the furniture. The monochrones in my life are so organized, they have no trouble remembering to remind me to show up.

  Martha Beck

  Children, Writing, Phones

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• An elegantly organized tour of the Internet, both fun and informative, a rare combination!

  Steve Crocker

  Fun, Internet, Combination

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• Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.

  Don Marquis

  Song, Writing, Winter

  "Modern Essays" edited by Christopher Morley, ("The Almost Perfect State"), 1921.

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• The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense agrees with. But second-and more important in the long run-they are a kind of major pilot study of the use of leisure in an economy of abundance.

  Paul Goodman

  Running, Long, Important

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.155, New York Review of Books

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• Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.

  Robert Heller

  Want, Way, Management

  Robert Heller (1984). “The supermanagers: managing for success, the movers and the doers, the reasons why”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

  Stephen King

  Views, People, Tools

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• If zero percent of the elites support something, very low chance it's going to pass, if 100% support something, very high chance it's going to pass. Same thing for organized interest groups. But for the average voter, it's a flat line. Which says it doesn't matter whether zero percent of the public believes something or 100% of the average voters believe something - it doesn't affect the probability that that thing will be enacted.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Zero, Believe, Average

  "'Your Representative Doesn't Give a Shit About You': Larry Lessig's Plan to Fix Democracy". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. October 13, 2015.

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• I sampled a bit of stuff from my dad's collection. He has probably a bigger record collection than I do. I try to buy as much as possible, because I've never been able to keep an MP3 collection organized. I like to keep my computers as clean as possible.

  Girl Talk

  Dad, Mp3, Trying

  "Random Rules: Gregg Gillis of Girl Talk". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2007.

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• When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a political mafia.

  Frank Capra

  Fighting, Political, Mafia

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been fortunate enough to travel with Oxfam several times, and they're always so well organized, so it was a good way to show the kind of work they're doing.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Oxfam, Way, Kind

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• A lot of people have nothing very well organized, and a lot of people have nothing, very well organized.

  David Allen

  People, Wells

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• Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

  Charles Fourier

  People, Administration, Civilized

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• Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized.

  Arthur D. Hlavaty

  Enemy, Paranoia, Delusion

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• Have I said clearly enough that the Community we created is not an end in itself? It is a process of change, continuing in that same process which in an earlier period produced our national forms of life. The sovereign nations of the past can no longer solve the problems of the present: they cannot ensure their own progress or control their own future. And the Community itself is only a stage on the way of the organized world of tomorrow.

  Jean Monnet

  Past, Community, Progress

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• Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.

  Al Sharpton

  Cat, Herding Cats, Democrat

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• By doing that and being very competitive, the grown-ups started telling me even back before I started playing organized ball that I was too physical and too advanced for the kids my own age.

  Bo Jackson

  Kids, Age, Balls

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• I have a lot of frustration with religion, organized religion, because it's man-made, because it's man-regulated. And it has nothing to do with my relationship with God.

  Vera Farmiga

  Frustration, Men, Made

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• I don't have anything against organized religions, except when they engender hatred for other religions. A lot of that we see today, where the Muslims are against the Christians and the Christians are against Jews and the Jews are against Arabs - I mean, it just it goes on and on and on.

  Al Jaffee

  Christian, Mean, Hatred

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• I think I'm a great organizer. Not that I'm organized, but I'm a great organizer of other people.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Thinking, People, Organizer

  "Jerry Bruckheimer Predicts U.S. Film Will No Longer Dominate Internationally". "The Hollywood Masters" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 27, 2015.

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• Even an organized person has days that aren't efficient and well-managed.

  Deniece Schofield

  Wells, Persons, Efficient

  Deniece Schofield (1994). “Confessions of an organized homemaker: the secrets of uncluttering your home and taking control of your life”

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• Work at getting organized like a hobby. Set aside a certain amount of time each day (or whatever time your budget will allow). While it may indeed take a fair amount of time to establish order, once it is achieved, you will save more time than you have ever spent.

  Deniece Schofield

  Order, Hobbies, Each Day

  Deniece Schofield (1994). “Confessions of an organized homemaker: the secrets of uncluttering your home and taking control of your life”

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• Being organized will give you more free time, contribute to a cheerful nature, and add to the peace and security of your home.

  Deniece Schofield

  Home, Giving, Cheerful

  Deniece Schofield (1994). “Confessions of an Organized Homemaker: The Secrets of Uncluttering Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life”, Betterway Books

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• I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

  Luke Grimes

  Fans, Organized Religion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.

  A. N. Wilson

  Formal, Worthy, Collectives

  A. N. Wilson (1991). “Against religion”, Vintage

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• The ’60s was the last time when large groups of people in the West searched for alternative modes of being. In a society like India’s, which is still not fully modern or totally organized, and has a great deal of tolerance for otherness in general, they find the cultural license to try other things, to be whatever they want to be.

  Pankaj Mishra

  People, Tolerance, Trying

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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