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“Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.”

People Humans Wells Whole Shows Groups Evolution Balance Behavior Training Patterns Evolve Builder Destroyers

Book:The Ultimate Resource 2

Source: The Ultimate Resource 2

“In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.”

Character Together Names Quality Moral Virtue Groups Development Balance Battle Perfection Intellect Active Passive Assemblage Great Battle Battle Of Life

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, violent point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice. Now that seems like 'entertainment' to me.”

“I read at least one periodical every month by a political group I dislike - to keep some sense of balance. The overwhelming stupidity of political movements is caused by the fact that political types never read anything but their own gang's agit-prop.”

Facts Political Groups Movement Type Months Balance Stupidity Overwhelming Dislike Gang Props Political Movements Political Groups

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.”

Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

“I was assigned to a medical unit and was part of a group receiving men returning from theater headed to hospital care, many forever maimed with life-altering wounds. It made a strong impression because wounded men and body bags come back to home districts, not Washington, D.C., and accordingly, there is no more sacred vote than those surrounding war where life hangs in the balance.”

Men Made War Home Body Care Strong Forever Groups Balance Vote Theater Sacred Medical Wounds Impression Bags Hospitals Receiving Wounded Units Life Altering

Author:Mark Sanford

“I made a film about adolescence and what going through it is like for a specific group of girls. Adolescence is always about wanting desperately to be individuals, and also about wanting desperately to fit in. For every teenager it's about finding that balance.”

Made Film Girl Individual Groups Balance Fit Findings Teenager Adolescence

Author:Linda Goldstein Knowlton

“We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This was one group where liberals didn't ask why there wasn't a more pleasing gender balance, because the Upper West Side is not fireproof. What happens in combat in some distant field is abstract to liberals, but they can understand the need to have strong, brave men in their fire department.”

Men Needs Happens Asks Strong Sides Fire Groups Fields Depends Hero Balance Safe Brave West Gender Abstract Characteristics Department Combat Manly Brave Man Fireman West Side Fire Department

Author:Kate O'Beirne

“Frequently, we busily search for group service projects, which are surely needed and commendable, when quiet, personal service is also urgently needed. Sometimes the completing of an occasional group service project ironically salves our consciences when, in fact, we are constantly surrounded by a multitude of opportunities for individual service. In serving, as in true worship, we need to do some things together and some things personally. Our spiritual symmetry is our own responsibility, and balance is so important.”

“NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be a balance and NASA is going to do certain things and we are finally in a state of existence where small groups of individuals can do extraordinary things, funded by single people.”

People States Certain Individual Given Stuff Can Do Existence Groups Balance Extraordinary Given Up Phenomenal Nasa Small Groups Extraordinary Things Single People

Author:Peter Diamandis

“When Ruth Bader Ginsburg came in front of the Senate and was approved 96-3 to be on the Supreme Court to replace conservative justice Byron White. This is in 1993.Now, Justice Ginsburg, it was noted earlier, was a general counsel for the ACLU, certainly a liberal group. It was abundantly clear during the confirmation hearing that Ginsburg would swing the balance of the court to the left.But because President [Bill] Clinton won the election and because Justice Ginsburg clearly had the intellectual ability and integrity to serve on the court, she was confirmed.”

“Those of us who grew up in the '50s and '60s, we had the dream that this could be turned around, and the earth could be back in balance, and that we could level the playing field with men and women and pay, and you know, minority groups having equal opportunity. We just magically thought this was all going to happen: we were going to have clean food, and organic this, and conscious that, and it just didn't happen.”

Knows Men Dream Happens Earth Opportunity Levels Pay Groups Fields Grew Balance Equal Grew Up Conscious Men And Women Clean Minorities Equal Opportunity Playing Fields Minority Groups

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born, and to come into living contact with a broader environment.”

School Opportunity Individual Social Born Environment Groups Balance Office Elements Various Contact Limitation Social Groups Social Environment

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“Understand stakeholder symmetry: Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders.”

Groups Balance Claims Various Appropriate Competing Symmetry Stakeholder

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“Every day is something new. It's kind of like Hurricane Katrina. Some days I'm recording or going shopping or having a group orgy. Maybe today I'll go to Louis Vuitton and have sex with a straight guy. I have to balance my time.”

Kind Today Guy Sex Groups Balance My Time Something New Shopping Hurricanes Katrina Hurricane Katrina Louis Vuitton

Author:Jeffree Star

“Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.”

Important Groups Balance Deserve Claims Various Appropriate Consideration Competing Stakeholder Consideration For Others

Author:Warren G. Bennis