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• Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you as darkness is from light. Truth is not found by observing rituals, undertaking pilgrimages or reading the scriptures. It is simply a waste of time.

  Anandmurti Gurumaa

  Reading, Light, Darkness

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• Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist.

  Jim Stanford

  Details, Communism, Modern

  Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

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• Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.

  Emma Goldman

  Violence, Individual, Bottom

  "Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader".

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• All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth.

  Robert E. Lee

  Government, Unions, Purity

  Robert E. Lee (1904). “Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee”, p.132, Lulu.com

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• The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head.

  Michael Graves

  Order, Design, Quality

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• Science spotlights three dimensions of nature that point to God. The first is the fact that nature obeys laws. The second is the dimension of life, of intelligently organized and purpose-driven beings, which arose from matter. The third is the very existence of nature. But it is not science alone that has guided me. I have also been helped by a renewed study of the classical philosophical arguments.

  Antony Flew

  Philosophical, Law, Three

  "One Flew out of the atheists’ nest" by William West, www.mercatornet.com. April 1, 2009.

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• Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who refuses to ask it. He is welcome to tell me that the question does not make sense. Scientifically speaking, it does not. Metaphysically speaking, however, it does. Science can account for many things in the world; it may some day account for all that which the world of phenomena actually is. But why anything at all is, or exists, science knows not, precisely because it cannot even ask the question.

  Etienne Gilson

  Science, Understanding, Doe

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• Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

  Holly Near

  Government, People, Community

  Holly Near, Derk Richardson (1990). “Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography”, William Morrow & Company

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• Germans must fight Jews, that organized body of world criminals against whom Christ, the greatest anti-Semite of all time, had fought.

  Julius Streicher

  Fighting, Criminals, World

  "Hitler's Elite: Shocking Profiles of the Reich's Most Notorious Henchmen" by Louis Leo Snyder, Berkley Books, 1990.

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• We don't want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don't see armed struggle in the classic sense of previous guerrilla wars, that is as the only way and the only all-powerful truth around which everything is organized. In a war, the decisive thing is not the military confrontation but the politics at stake in the confrontation. We didn't go to war to kill or be killed. We went to war in order to be heard.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Powerful, Military, War

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• Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. ... It has the organized, self-contained look of a live creature, full of information, marvelously skilled in handling the sun

  Lewis Thomas

  Distance, Moon, Self

  The Lives of a Cell "The World's Biggest Membrane" (1974)

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• It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force

  William Woodruff

  Law, World, Outcomes

  William Woodruff (1998). “A Concise History of the Modern World: 1500 to the Present”, p.1, Springer

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• Passionate, organized hatred is the element missing in all that we do to try to change the world. Now is the time to spread hate, hatred for the rich.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Hate, Missing, Hatred

  "Oakland police, Occupy protesters clash - 100 held" by David R. Baker and Vivian Ho, www.sfgate.com. January 29, 2012.

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• Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of Justice are so poorly organized. On the other hand, the Evil is cynic, sly and fantastically organized. It never ever has the illusion of the ability to stand on its own feet and to win in a fair competition. That is why it is ready to use any kind of means without hesitation. And of course it does - under the banners of the most noble ideas.

  Vladimir Bukovsky

  Believe, Mean, Winning

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• What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it will compel you by force - all governments, all law and authority finally rest on force and violence, on punishment or fear of punishment.

  Alexander Berkman

  Government, Order, Law

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• We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Sound, Hearing, Cases

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• The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

  James Randi

  Character, Differences, Different

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• You don’t have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organized crime. They affect our bank accounts. They affect our communications, our pension funds. They even affect the food that we eat and our governments.

  Misha Glenny

  Communication, Sleep, Government

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• A basic assumption shapes most Americans’ mindset about labor: the belief that the death of unions isn’t my problem because I’m not in a union. That assumption is wrong. Even if you aren’t a member, your pay is influenced by the strength or weakness of organized labor. The presence of unions sets off a wage race to the top. Their absence sets off a race to the bottom.

  Eric Liu

  Race, Shapes, Organized Labor

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• I am focused, organized, and easily able to honor the priorities that need my attention.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Priorities, Honor, Needs

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• I do enjoy playing some sports, even though none of them are organized. I enjoy football most of all.

  Nathan Kress

  Sports, Football, Enjoy

  "Nathan Kress talks iFreddy". Interview with Marie Morreale, www.scholastic.com.

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• In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.

  Alan Hirsch

  Jesus, Community, Movement

  Alan Hirsch, Tim Catchim (2012). “The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church”, p.33, John Wiley & Sons

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• Overall, the work of rebuilding and transforming government for the digital age is only just beginning. Governments remain organized according to political and bureaucratic imperatives, not according to what makes the most sense to citizens.

  Andrew Leigh

  Government, Political, Age

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• Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. The parties to the labor contract must be nearly equal in strength if justice is to be worked out, and this means that the workers must be organized and that their organizations must be recognized by employers as a condition precedent to industrial peace.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Strong, Party, Mean

  "The Curse of Bigness: Miscellaneous Papers of Louis D. Brandeis". Book by Osmond Kessler Fraenkel and Clarence Martin Lewis, 1965.

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• Policy is largely set by economic elites and organized groups representing business interests with little concern for public attitudes or public safety, as long as the public remains passive and obedient.

  Noam Chomsky

  Attitude, Long, Safety

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