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When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president who would reduce taxes for his employers, the Southern and Western New Rich, much of whose money came from the defence industries. There is nothing unusual about this arrangement. All recent presidents have had their price-tags.

Gore Vidal

Price Tag, Careers, California

Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.61, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Thinking, Errors, Democracies Have

"The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 12, p. 330, 1977.

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What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrange ment — God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made out of them.

Frederick William Robertson

Wise, Looks, Way

"Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton".

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Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins. Do not forget to make proper arrangements for your last will and testament: speaking personally, I ask that I be taken to the cemetery in a moving van. May my friends destroy every last copy of the printing of the Speech concerning the Modicum of Reality.

Andre Breton

Memories, Moving, Love You

"First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.

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Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into an article for use, for arrangement into a mental scheme of categories.

Susan Sontag

Art, Criticism, Dubious

Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the Jews as the new Priestly caste. The alternative Church of our society, the Jews, survived in abeyance for hundreds of years. As long as the Christian Church attended to the discourse, the Jews plainly had no chance to compete; but when its power was broken by liberty-seekers, the alternative arrangement came forward.

Israel Shamir

Christian, Years, Long

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Indisputably we live in a shaped reality, an artificialism. Most people who grasp this are thinking only at a consumer-level, of the "things" they like and need and feel impelled to acquire. But our societal and political arrangements are just as much manipulations of game-pieces and rules as is any Atari or Sega product. The subliminal psychology that drives people to become addicted to games, not to be able to see over the edges of their labyrinths, is transferable to any field whatsoever.

Kenny Smith

Philosophy, Reality, Thinking

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As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.

Mel Torme

Joy, Singers

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My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.

Peter Higgs

School, Wonder, Physics

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There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.

Chuck Mangione

Fall, Together, Hanging On

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People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from the one to the other ... On what grounds, then, do people form hypotheses about the relative merits of state and state of nature? ... My contention here is that preferences for political arrangements of society are to a large extent produced by these very arrangements, so that political institutions are either addictive like some drugs, or allergy-inducing like some others, or both, for they may be one thing for some people and the other for others.

Anthony de Jasay

Moving, Government, People

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As mineralogy constitutes a part of chemistry, it is clear that this arrangement [of minerals] must derive its principles from chemistry. The most perfect mode of arrangement would certainly be to allow bodies to follow each other according to the order of their electro-chemical properties, from the most electro-negative, oxygen, to the most electro-positive, potassium; and to place every compound body according to its most electro-positive ingredient.

Jons Jacob Berzelius

Science, Oxygen, Order

"An Attempt to Establish a Pure Scientific System of Mineralogy: By the Application of the Electro-Chemical Theory and the Chemical Proportions". Book by Jons Jacob Berzelius, 1814.

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Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Men, Practice, Expectations

Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to judgments so brief, that they never lose sight of the evidence that serves as their guide.

Antoine Lavoisier

Science, Simple, Sight

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They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority.

Frederic Bastiat

Sheep, Shepherds, Would Be

Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.60, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.

Blaise Pascal

Math, Play, Tennis

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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The wonderful arrangement and harmony of the cosmos would only originate in the plan of an almighty omniscient being. This is and remains my greatest comprehension.

Isaac Newton

Cosmos, Wonderful, Harmony

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... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Travel, Spring

Leonardo Da Vinci (2011). “Da Vinci Notebooks”, p.153, Profile Books

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Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in every day, let alone things like birds, and Shakespeare, and one's work.

Elizabeth von Arnim

Mother, Morning, Clever

Elizabeth von Arnim (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)”, p.1374, Delphi Classics

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Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus that makes up the mind is made, old processes and patterns have continually to be broken up in order to make it possible to perceive the new aspects and arrangements of evolving consciousness. The great enemy of intelligence is complacency.

John Dos Passos

Art, Order, Broken

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The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.

Reynolds Price

Art, Children, Funeral

Reynolds Price (1989). “A common room: essays, 1954-1987”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by empirical data, the investigator rather develops a system of thought which, in general, is built up logically from a small number of fundamental assumptions, the so-called axioms. We call such a system of thought a theory. The theory finds the justification for its existence in the fact that it correlates a large number of single observations, and it is just here that the 'truth' of the theory lies.

Albert Einstein

Lying, Data, Numbers

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The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

Alicia Keys

Song, Depends

"6 Questions With Alicia Keys". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. October 20, 2005.

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Whatever new arrangements are enacted for the Eurozone, they must work fairly for those inside it and out.

David Cameron

Eurozone

"The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". www.independent.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

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That's always attractive to me, to work with music whose form is a big question mark. Even many of my favorite bands growing up, when I was just a kid learning to play drums and guitar and everything, were bands like Pink Floyd, where the arrangement, the number of bars in each section is unconventional and often lopsided, and there will be small little instrumental interludes and that sort of thing. So those odd forms, as well as dark content, are the things that I think are continuous through all the type of projects that I've been attracted to.

Charlie Clouser

Growing Up, Kids, Dark

"Nine Inch Nails' Charlie Clouser makes American Horror Story and Saw sound creepy". Interview With Alex McLevy, www.avclub.com. July 2, 2016.

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