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  Famous Writer needs woman to organize his life and spend his money. Loves to turn off Sunday football and go to the Botanical Gardens with that special someone. Will obtain plastic surgery if necessary.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Football, Sunday, Garden

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• Good order is the foundation of all things.

  Edmund Burke

  Order, Foundation, All Things

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 351

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• How we organize our world reflects not only the world but also our interests, our passions, our needs, our dreams.

  David Weinberger

  Dream, Passion, Our World

  David Weinberger (2007). “Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder”, p.44, Macmillan

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• ...decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them.

  Brian Tracy

  Writing, Goal, Achieve

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• I do not believe that there is any secret or single formula for success, but there are common threads of thought and action that characterize the successful people that I have been fortunate enough to know and observe. I do know, from my own experience, that our chance of succeeding is much greater when we organize and take charge of our lives. When we are willing to make decisions, we aggressively pursue those things in life that are important to us.

  Merlin Olsen

  Leadership, Sports, Believe

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• Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Independent, Labor Day

  Annual Message to Congress, 3 Dec. 1861

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• When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Upset, Students, Anarchist

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• An intention synchronistically organizes its own fulfillment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Intention, Fulfillment

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• Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

  Jacques Barzun

  Hatred, Political, Tolerance

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• The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

  Henry Louis Gates

  Children, Reading, School

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2012). “The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader”, p.546, Basic Books

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• Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

  Brian Greene

  Perception, World, Patterns

  "Greene, With Curiosity". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2010.

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• Concerned consumers are realizing that they can use social media to organize themselves around shared values to start effective movements. Social media gives them a sounding board to share ideas, as well as a means to punish irresponsible corporate behaviors.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Mean, Media, Ideas

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• When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.

  Christine Pelosi

  Winning, Common Sense, Vote

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• Organize before they rise!

  Max Brooks

  "'The Zombie Survival Guide'". Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. October 30, 2003.

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• Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.

  Steven Pinker

  World, Fields, Topics

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• It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

  Aristotle

  Peace, Nature, War

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• To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants... Life has become impossible.

  Alain Robbe-Grillet

  Girl, Boys, Practice

  Alain Robbe-Grillet (2015). “La Maison de Rendez-Vous and Djinn: Two Novels”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

  Brandon Sanderson

  Clever, World, Fists

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• When a woman comes into your life, things organize themselves.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Chetan Bhagat (2009). “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”, p.37, Sandesh S

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• Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.

  Erich Fromm

  Motivation, Real, Passion

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• The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Men, Law

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate," said Elphaba. "See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something?

  Gregory Maguire

  Males, Roaring, Female

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.99, Harper Collins

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• When Catherine told me about this (tragedy nearby), I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly, "That family needs casseroles," and then proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing that family dinner, in shifts, every single night, for an entire year. I do not know if my sister fully recognizes that this _is_ grace.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Night, Years, Grace

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• A map, it is said, organizes wonder.

  Ellen Meloy

  Maps, Wonder, Said

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• Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

  Anthony de Mello

  World, Able, Wells

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.113, Image

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