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• C'mon everybody, yeah, this is your life I'm talking about a revolution we gotta organize We don't need no segregation, we don't need no race New age revelation, I think we got a case. I'm OK as long as u are here with me Sexuality is all we ever need.

  Prince

  Thinking, Race, Talking

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• Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right to organize opposition parties and to join voluntary associations, and freedom to cultivate and publish the fruits of scientific, philosophical, artistic, literary, moral and religious freedom.

  Paul Kurtz

  Religious, Party, Communication

  Paul Kurtz (1983). “In defense of secular humanism”, Prometheus Books

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• As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life.

  C. Wright Mills

  Atheism, World, Variables

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• The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.

  Herbert Hoover

  Successful, Numbers, Agency

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.

  Jane Jacobs

  Life, Art, Order

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• Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

  Al Gore

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  Al Gore's speech on Iraq, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2002.

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• Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.

  Richard Mitchell

  Wisdom, Simple, Order

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• People who are busy doing things - as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops -don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Coffee, Reading, Opportunity

  "The man who can't stop thinking" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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• This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death, is a concept often shocking to the secular modern Western mind - to people who calmly organize daily hecatombs of beasts, and who are among the most death-dealing carnivores the world has ever seen.

  Margaret Visser

  Food, Sacrifice, Animal

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• One of the most productive things that we ever do in our lives is to think. To be able to think is to be able to decide, to judge, to have opinions and convictions, and to entertain a point of view. To be able to think is to be able to love, to believe, to work, to originate, and to organize.

  Sterling W Sill

  Believe, Thinking, Views

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• A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed in.

  Pam Farrel

  Men, Succeed, Boxes

  Bill Farrel, Pam Farrel (2003). “Why Men and Women Act the Way They Do: The Reasons Might Surprise You”, p.15, Harvest House Publishers

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• Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Doctors, Lawyer, Newspapers

  "Toronto International Film Festival 2002: an Interview With Frederick Wiseman, Director of the Last Letter". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. October 02, 2002.

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• Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Army, Men, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.172, Рипол Классик

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• Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us to find out what we know-and what we don't know-about whatever we're trying to learn.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

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• Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Hawks, Propaganda

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.110, Beacon Press

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• If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Trying, Care

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• You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.

  Lee Konitz

  Special, Trying, Way

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• You know I really don't like to think about the fact that I'm a girl in relation to the music industry. I was just a kid who wrote down thoughts to organize her brain and that turned into music, like any other writer or musician... so, I happen to be a girl. I don't consider that part of it really.. It may disappoint some feminists out there that I don't want to harp on women and men being equal.

  Lacey Mosley

  Girl, Kids, Men

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• There are five things that societies do: They reproduce; they produce food; they organize themselves in terms of law; they organize themselves in terms of belief; and they make art. Four of them are about conformity, and in these, everything would go more smoothly if people just would shut up and do what they're told. But in art it doesn't work that way.

  Jane Smiley

  Art, Law, People

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 4, 2007.

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• So there was not an "I" anymore - not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect - save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Self, Toil, Limitless

  "The Crack-Up" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, www.esquire.com. 1936.

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• Often when I'm on TV, they'll ask what are the three most important things for people to do. I know they want me to say that people should change their light bulbs. I say the number one thing is to organize politically; number two, do some political organizing; number three, get together with your neighbors and organize; and then if you have energy left over from all of that, change the light bulb.

  Bill McKibben

  Light, Two, Numbers

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• My daughter Cosma is a very popular actress in Germany. She also organizes these wonderful open-air parties. She has a wonderful teacher, she's very smart. And I sometimes perform at her festivals.

  Nina Hagen

  Daughter, Teacher, Smart

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• Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better.

  Miriam Makeba

  Artist, Musician, Ministry

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• The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves.

  Helen Keller

  Tasks, Workers, Secure

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• I think we have an administration today that is dysfunctional. And if it can't get itself together to organize a serious program for finding nuclear material on its way to the United States, then it ought to be replaced by an administration that can.

  Richard Perle

  Thinking, Together, United States

  "An Administration Ally Goes Off-Message". Richard Perle's speech at a Center for Strategic and International Studies gathering, www.washingtonpost.com. November 1, 2006.

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