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• I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and that has been paying my bills. Obviously a ''real job'' pays better than most universities will pay, but I've been very happy with this arrangement I get to do whatever I want, and I have no commercial pressures whatsoever doing this.

  Linus Torvalds

  Jobs, Real, Want

  Source: www.ru.j-npcs.org

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• Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.

  Frank Zappa

  Inspirational

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• The power for authentic leadership is found not in external arrangements, but in the human heart.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Heart, Found, Humans

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.76, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is a kind and wise arrangement of Providence that weaves our sorrows into the elements of character and that all the disappointments, and conflicts, and afflictions of life may, if rightly used, become the means of improvement, and create in us the sinews of strength.... the dross is left in the crucible, the baser metals are transmuted, and the character is enriched with gold.

  William Morley Punshon

  Wise, Disappointment, Character

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• A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Men, Long

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• No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Years, Civilization, Effort

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.210, Best Books on

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• When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-, 60-year-old men and women. This big, Victorian mental house. There were like five boys in there, all my age, looked after by this woman who was 22 or 23. And it was like "Empire of the Sun" meets "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"-type of arrangement where you've got this young boy overcoming and becoming heroic in the face of this awful place.

  Duncan Roy

  Boys, Men, Years

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Pain, Writing, Nuts

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• The instrumental pieces are compositions, certainly, although that's not the language that I instinctively use. They're not scored, and arrangements are often arrived at collaboratively. I always choose to play with people whose input I desire.

  David Grubbs

  Play, People, Desire

  Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

  Carl Sandburg

  Static, Poetry Is, Syllables

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as an "image" or a "song." But besides functionality, code also possesses literary value. If we frame that code and read it through the lens of literary criticism, we will find that the past hundred years of modernist and postmodernist writing have demonstrated the artistic value of similar seemingly arbitrary arrangements of letters.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Song, Writing, Past

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• My main influence is - it's music. It lifts the spirit. I am always listening to music. And sometimes what inspires me is a little sound or some small arrangement. I really do listen to music continuously all day long - very loud, so people can't stand to be around me anymore.

  Donatella Versace

  Long, People, Inspire

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of the strange things done in American educationism suddenly become perfectly understandable when we see them not as educational methods but as political maneuvers. We must understand illiteracy, therefore, the root of ignorance and thoughtlessness, as not some inadvertent failure to accomplish what was intended but simply a political arrangement of great value to somebody.

  Richard Mitchell

  Educational, Taken, Ignorance

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• I get everything that satisfies my soul from bringing together objects that are in the world, manipulating them, working with spatial arrangements, and having things presented in the way I want to see them.

  Fred Wilson

  Soul, Together, Want

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• There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

  Arthur Phillips

  Order, Contemplation

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• The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put into a reasonably workable arrangement with a little good will, patience, and experimentation.

  Carroll Quigley

  Believe, Men, Littles

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

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• My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world changes depending on its arrangement into one narrative or another.

  Ben Lerner

  Real, Fiction, World

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• This is called synchronicity - a state in which you almost feel as if you are in a collaborative arrangement with fate.

  Wayne Dyer

  Fate, Synchronicity, States

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2014). “I Can See Clearly Now”, p.160, Hay House, Inc

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• It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by his hand, that my trials were never measured out by him, nor sent to me by his arrangement of their weight and quantity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, Hands, Trying

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• If you're ordering me an edible arrangement to say thanks, I'd prefer a meat one.

  LIZ

  Meat, Thanks, Ifs

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• The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones' arrangement of "One Mint Julep." I heard that sound, and it just struck me. I thought that's what I want to do with my life. That's the sound I want to try to make.

  Booker T. Jones

  Player, Trying, Rays

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing non-piano music at the piano.

  Michael Hersch

  Symphony, Piano, Young

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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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• Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.

  Beck

  Beautiful, Bentley, Strings

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• To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.

  Allen Toussaint

  Play, Band, Chords

  "'Fresh Air' Remembers Hit Songwriter, Pianist And Producer Allen Toussaint". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 13, 2015.

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