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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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• Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.

  Joan Didion

  Reading, Simple, Twelve

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• Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

  Charles Dickens

  Fashion, Men, Literature

  Charles Dickens (2015). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 1 (of 2) (Illustrations)”, p.8, E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

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• People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

  Don DeLillo

  Power, People, Secret Love

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.

  Elvis Costello

  Writing, Opportunity, Years

  Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.

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• A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

  Mason Cooley

  Cat, People, Pet

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• Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Spring, Believe, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.180, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.

  Jello Biafra

  Guy, Doe, Band

  "Nardwuar Vs. Jello Biafra: New Introduction by Kristen K.: Originally ran in Razorcake #08, 2002". Interview with Nardwuar the Human Serviette, razorcake.org. 2002.

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• We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased.

  Annie Besant

  Husband, Home, Thinking

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

  Garrett Hardin

  Responsibility, Coercion, Injustice

  Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform

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• Whether Canada ends up as o­ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion...

  Stephen Harper

  Government, Two, Canada

  Stephen Harper's Speech to the National Citizens Coalition's Colin Brown Memorial Dinner, 1994.

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• But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Friendship, Happiness

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.423

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• The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.

  Susan Orlean

  Home, Perfect, Quests

  "iPhone Home: Susan Orlean". www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

  Robert Orben

  Wisdom, Feet, Mouths

  Robert Orben (2011). “2100 Laughs for All Occasions: Short, Sharp, Topical, and Funny--Arranged in Categories for Reading, Telling, Laughing”, p.146, Main Street Books

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• I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

  Van Morrison

  Depth, Layers

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• Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Friendship, Favors, Bigs

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• I've cried over string arrangements.

  Janelle Monae

  Strings, Cried

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• George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

  Paul McCartney

  Sweet, Very Good, Lush

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• A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.

  Christian Louboutin

  Heart, Character, Curves

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• The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in the Soviet Union - who have conducted their arguments with their societies and its political arrangements through their art in subtle, oblique ways. They didn't always have the license to make bold pronouncements about freedom, democracy, Islam, and liberalism, but they exerted another kind of moral authority through their work.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Art, Past, Egypt

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.

  Nick Lampson

  Ties, Understanding, Taiwan

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• Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Fall, Numbers, Work Out

  "Sheryl Sandberg Is Half Right" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2013.

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• I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

  Barbara Kruger

  Thinking, Labels, Way

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• Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.

  Alicia Keys

  Horse, Style, Rolling

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• I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

  Quincy Jones

  Home, Writing, Dry

  Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 1995.

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