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I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

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One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always. ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

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You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected. ↗

— Lech Walesa

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But the Go-Go's are a very original, kind of organic thing. ↗

— Kathy Valentine

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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. ↗

— Larry Wall

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On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

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When I'm driving I should make more of an effort with my iPod, but I'm too lazy to organise a playlist. ↗

— Mark Webber

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What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros. ↗

— Jack Welch

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We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

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