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• Judo should be free as art and science from any external influences, political, national, racial, and financial or any other organized interest. And all things connected with it should be directed to its ultimate object, the benefit of Humanity.

  Kano Jigoro

  Art, Political, Humanity

  Budokwai Bulletin, April 1947.

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• An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.

  Albert Einstein

  Political, Oligarchy, Information

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

  Charles Kettering

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• [Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I believe that reading our blueprints, cataloguing our own instruction book, will be judged by history as more significant than even splitting the atom or going to the moon.

  Francis Collins

  Believe, Book, Reading

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• All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

  David Hockney

  Art, Matter, Painting

  David Hockney (1977). “David Hockney”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.

  Richard Dawkins

  Design, Religion, Atheism

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas - which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Crazy, Ideas, Religion

  Richard P. Feynman (2010). “"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.338, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Moving, Gun

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• There is no other group of sinners in the world that is organized for the purpose of transforming the society in its own image

  Scott Lively

  Gay, Groups, Purpose

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• The indoor game is much more of a team game, having to work effectively with a group of 15 to 20 people, striving to improve every day, every drill, even every contact. The beach game is much more of an individual game within a team sport, much less about organized practices with coaches and much more about just playing the game.

  Karch Kiraly

  Sports, Volleyball, Beach

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• I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants

  Dave Beard

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

  Raymond Chandler

  Dirty, Dollars, Sides

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.352, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.

  Lettie Cowman

  Party, Feet, House

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• A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not discovered by chemical or physical methods; they are inadequate to its refinement and delicacy and complexity.

  Herbert Spencer Jennings

  Cells, Substance, Delicacy

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• [Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic.

  Edward Forbes

  Character, Science, Epic

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• Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief in God by organizing together as a community to do good. Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Thinking, Compassion, Soup Kitchens

  Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. April 29, 2010.

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• In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Mean, Compassion, Giving Money

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• Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

  Matt Taibbi

  Integrity, Greed, Democracy

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. November 2, 2010.

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• A handgun ban is not realistically enforceable. Confiscating guns would require house-to-house searches and alienate the very individuals whose compliance is essential to the success of any regulation. If gun ownership were prohibited, organized crime would step in to provide the firearms that will continue to be procured with criminal intent.

  Don Kates

  Gun, House, Regulation

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• You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

  Alice Walker

  Wisdom, Confused, Church

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• Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Religious, Commitment

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• The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly plowed, and still continues to be thus plowed by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Men, Garden

  Charles Darwin (1884). “Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles Darwin”

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• Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

  Tryon Edwards

  Leisure, Accomplish, Hurrying

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.947, Ravenio Books

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• The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there's a major incident and then suddenly say, `Oh, my God, shouldn't we be organized to deal with this?'

  Paul Bremer

  War, Administration, Attention

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• I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

  Ellen Glasgow

  War, Littles, Killing

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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