Organized Quotes - Page 29

• My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Block, Fire

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• Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

  H. Rap Brown

  People, Community, Black

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• I have my whole life organized on an 11x17-inch tear-away weekly calendar.

  Brooke Burke

  Tears, Calendars, Inches

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• Good order is the foundation of all things.

  Edmund Burke

  Order, Foundation, Organize

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 351

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• Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

  Drew Carey

  Humor, America, Alcohol

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1997.

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• About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

  Howie Carr

  Boston, Years, Covering

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• I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Years, People

  Controversial address vaults Hopkins' Carson into political arena, The Baltimore Sun, articles.baltimoresun.com. February 18, 2013.

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• Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

  John Jay Chapman

  Hatred, Unity, Politics

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• Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Organization, Would Be, Literature

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• I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

  Julia Child

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. June 2001.

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• Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

  Warren Christopher

  Environmental, Collaboration, Borders

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• Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

  Grover Cleveland

  Government, Presidential, Hateful

  Grover Cleveland (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.259, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I really liked the food in Japan. There is something so organized, neat, and methodical about it. They put a lot of care and quality into their cooking. I also love Mediterranean, New American, and Italian food, because the cuisines borrow influences from all over the world.

  Sasha Cohen

  Italian, Japan, Cooking

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• No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Retirement, Humor, Mind

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer, Carl Woodring (1990). “Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)”, Bollingen Foundation

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• My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

  Angela Davis

  Country, Names, People

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• I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.

  Jonathan Davis

  Believe, Home, Gay

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• Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

  Denis Diderot

  Mean, Power, Order

  "Supplement to Bougainville's Voyage". Book by Denis Diderot, 1796.

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• A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

  Annie Dillard

  Time, Hands, Schedules

  "The Writing Life". Book by Annie Dillard, 1989.

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• It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

  Mary Douglas

  Worry, Done, Recycling

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• People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.

  Clint Eastwood

  Love, Fighting, Law

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• However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

  Havelock Ellis

  Courage, Danger In Life, Bravery

  "On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue".

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• We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

  M. C. Escher

  Inspirational, Life, Order

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• I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

  Luke Ford

  Teens, Way, Attractive

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• The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

  E. M. Forster

  Organization, Doe, Literature

  "What I Believe". Essay by E. M. Forster, "The Nation", July 16, 1938.

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• Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Agency, Cynical, Religion

  Richard Le Gallienne (1895). “The Religion of a Literary Man: (Religio Scriptoris)”

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