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“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

“The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.”

States Individual Force Powerful Groups One Day Units Consensus All State

Book:The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

“I think Daily Kos is a really great example of where it's really worked in terms of putting the opinions of a larger group of people forward. And Kos has obviously had a huge impact on politics.”

People Thinking Term Opinion Groups Example Huge Impact Really Great

Author:John Byrne

“The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people.”

People Groups Grew Initials Organisation

Author:Steve Crocker

“I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.”

Wells Done Bits Groups Particular Ready Extremes Mysticism Eastern Devotee

Author:Mary Garden

“To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.”

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Author:Solomon Ortiz

“I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with.”

People World I Can Groups Special Computer Core Around The World Fortunate Plus Load Lecturer Special People

Author:Paul Kane

“I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.”

People Enough Happens Care Sports Magic Groups Team And Love Love Each Other Sports Team

Author:Tim Ryan

“I don't believe in an 'all-about-me' culture. It's about the group.”

Believe Culture Groups Don't Believe

Author:Brian McDermott

“The marriage tie becomes possessed of a history and takes to itself traditions. This history and these traditions form a great fund, to which changing conditions and growing imagination constantly add. And the traditions, more especially, bear heavily upon the individual, overmastering his natural expression of the love instinct and forcing him to an artificial expression of that love instinct. He loves, not as his savage forbears loved, but as his group loves.”

Form Individual Imagination Natural Growing Groups Conditions Expression Bears Tradition Add Instinct Ties Fund Artificial Possessed Savages

Book:The Complete Novels of Jack London – 22 Adventure Classics in One Volume (Illustrated): The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, White Fang, The Iron Heel, Martin Eden, Burning Daylight, The Scarlet Plague, A Son of the Sun, The Valley of the Moon, The Star Rover, Hearts of Three…

Source: The Complete Novels of Jack London – 22 Adventure Classics in One Volume (Illustrated): The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, White Fang, The Iron Heel, Martin Eden, Burning Daylight, The Scarlet Plague, A Son of the Sun, The Valley of the Moon, The Star Rover, Hearts of Three…

“It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?”

Way Mind Looks Doe Different Easy Sound One Thing Groups Shadow Organization Metaphor Familiar Vampire Agendas Misunderstood

Author:Alan Ball

“Antique art has come down to us in a fragmentary condition, and we have virtuously adapted our taste to this necessity. Almost all our favorite specimens of Greek sculpture, from the sixth century onward, were originally parts of compositions, and if we were faced with the complete group in which the Charioteer of Delphi was once a subsidiary figure, we might well experience a moment of revulsion. We have come to think of the fragment as more vivid, more concentrated, and more authentic.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Art Moments Might Groups Conditions Century Figures Taste Greek Composition Sculpture Fragments Vivid Adapted Antiques Revulsion Delphi

Book:The nude: a study in ideal form

Source: The nude: a study in ideal form

“Bismarck had cunningly taught the parties not to aim at national appeal but to represent interests. They remained class or sectional pressure-groups under the Republic. This was fatal, for it made the party system, and with it democratic parliamentarianism, seem a divisive rather than a unifying factor. Worse: it meant the parties never produced a leader who appealed beyond the narrow limits of his own following.”

Made Seems Interest Party Leader Class Groups Taught Limits Pressure Aim Democratic Following Factors Appeals Republic Unifying Pressure Groups Bismarck

Author:Paul Johnson

“A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.”

Persons Ideas Interest Groups Materials Ideals Mentality Conventional Commonplace Philistines

Book:Lectures on Russian Literature

Source: Lectures on Russian Literature

“I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations.”

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Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.”

Men Imagination Situation Groups Managers Imaginative

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“People are obsessed. There's an incredibly large group of people that spend most of their time considering other people's lives. It's strange to me.”

People Groups Strange Obsessed Considering Large Groups

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I think certain friendships have seasons, when you're closer with people when you're not, and so you can always have a relationship to someone or a group of friends that you don't necessarily have to work so hard to facilitate or to like maintain.”

People Thinking Hard Certain Groups Seasons Facilitate Group Of Friends

Author:Clayton Snyder

“Many immigrant groups have faced hostility. The Irish did in their time. Jews did. Italians did - and now, Muslim immigrants.”

Groups Jew Immigrants Hostility

Author:Tom Gjelten

“You have the script in front of you. It doesn't involve your body. It's all about your voice. And its fast work. Its also very lonely work. You are by yourself. Very rarely are you in a group. You act with yourself, and someone else mumbles the lines back at you. If at all.”

Ifs Body Voice Lines Groups Fronts Lonely Scripts Your Body

Author:Jane Lynch

“If you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.”

Ifs Knows Persons Individual Nations Groups Life Changing Large Groups

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.”

Different Country Grows Cities Growing Up Groups Economic Grew Type Lucky Grew Up Neighborhood Diverse Ethnic Groups Different Types Of Music Economic Status

Author:Mike Posner

“If zero percent of the elites support something, very low chance it's going to pass, if 100% support something, very high chance it's going to pass. Same thing for organized interest groups. But for the average voter, it's a flat line. Which says it doesn't matter whether zero percent of the public believes something or 100% of the average voters believe something - it doesn't affect the probability that that thing will be enacted.”

Ifs Believe Matter Interest Lines Chance Support Groups Lows Percent Average Organized Flats Zero Voters Elites Probability Interest Groups

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“There's no sense that you can knock on your neighbor's door or be part of a local community group, and that's part of your responsibility as a human being.”

Humans Community Human Beings Responsibility Doors Groups Neighbor Locals Local Community

Author:Rashida Jones

“There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join up in various herds - herd formation. So you become part of a herd, a group. Group power of some kind. There's an awful lot of group power people in our country [the USA] - Black power, Chinese power, Indian power, woman power. Everyone is putting in together.”

People Want Believe Kind Country Together Individual Black Groups Various Our Country Awful Chinese Indian Usa Formation Herds Women Power Black Power

Author:Frank Capra

“Any kind of dictatorship, I'm uneasy. I just don't like dictators. I don't like crowds. I don't like hordes, and I don't like other people telling me what to do. This is probably a reaction against people telling me what to do when I was a kid. I won't join any group, espouse a cause against some other people.”

People Kind Kids Causes Groups Crowds Reactions Dictatorship Dictator Uneasy Horde

Author:Frank Capra

“I'm not a real musician. If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that. I want to be able to be in a group and take my guitar and play with them, without someone showing me, "Okay, you're going to do this and that," because music has always been a big part of my life.”

Ifs Want Giving Real Play Bigs Able Asks Groups Musician Okay Give Me Guitar Ask Me Bass Bass Guitar

Author:Marion Cotillard

“You can forget anything, and actually being a part of a crowd, of a group, can itself be freeing.”

Forget Groups Crowds

Author:Florence Welch

“People go through different stages of their lives at different times. If you're out of sync with your friend group, that gets exploded once everyone starts having kids because they just have to deal with different stuff that you don't really relate to.”

People Ifs Different Kids Stuff Deals Groups Stage Relate Different Times Having Kids Sync

Author:Jon Hamm

“My favorite muscle to train is TRICEPS! Always has been my stongest muscle group as well.”

Wells Has Beens Groups Train My Favorite Muscles Triceps

Author:Scott Herman

“I was heavily into AD&D in my teens (late 1970s-early 1980s) but fell off the RPG habit in the mid-80s and have never gone back to it; my lifestyle today isn't very compatible with having a regular gaming group (too much travel).”

Today Gone Too Much Groups Habit Late Lifestyle Ads Teens 80s Compatible Gaming Rpgs

Author:Charles Stross

“What's funny about my group of friends is that none of us ever went to the same school. None of us lived in the same part of town.”

School Groups Towns Group Of Friends

Author:Mila Kunis

“There is a straight-forward definition for 'Independent Filmmaking'. The term references a group of films that are financed by money that comes from outside the studio system. In a literal sense that is what it means.”

Mean Film Term Groups Independent Definitions Studios Filmmaking Literal Independent Filmmaking

Author:Andrew Neel

“I'm part of an industry that everybody wants to be a part of. I do hang out with a lot of sort of powerful, interesting people like Bella Freud or Jay Joplin or Tracey Emin. I'm part of that group of people. Brit artists who are doing things. That's what I do. Some of them happen to be aristocrats.”

People Want Happens Artist Interesting Powerful Groups Industry Hanging Out Brits

Author:Duncan Roy

“For two hundred years Haiti has been swimming upstream. We were the first country in which independence was won by a group of slaves - black slaves. Across the water, the country that had just achieved independence - the U.S. - still practiced slavery.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Stills Two Country Black Water Groups Hundred Independence Slavery Slave Swimming Haiti Swimming Upstream

Author:Michele Montas

“Maybe Radiohead and R.E.M. Even a group like the National - artists who have crossed over without compromising. It's a special thing.”

Artist Groups Special Compromise Radiohead Special Things

Author:Guy Garvey

“There are many people who enjoy animal based foods and who have no interest in changing the way they eat. And as you correctly pointed out, animal products are an integral part of some ethnic groups and societies and it would be nearly impossible for them to change thousands of years of traditional eating habits.”

People Way Years Would Be Enjoy Interest Animal Impossible Groups Products Habit Eating Traditional Ethnic Groups Eating Habits

Author:Gary Player

“When I was about 16 or 17, I had a teacher who took a group of us to the National Theater in Washington, D.C., and I saw Ian McKellen do his one-man show - I think it was called Acting Shakespeare - and it completely bombed me; it put the zap on my brain in a big way.”

Thinking Men Way Shows Bigs Acting Brain Saws Teacher Groups Theater One Man

Author:Edward Norton

“I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.”

People Thinking Individual Interesting Groups

Author:Douglas Coupland

“In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.”

Writing Has Beens Different My Own Fiction Groups Woven Fiction Writing Strands

Author:Alan Lightman

“Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best. So before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.”

Ideas Would Be Order White Impossible Groups Hip Hop Checks Fantastic Hips Hops Rapper Fringe

Author:Talib Kweli

“I am very blessed to have a great group of long-term friends and a huge family that has been very loving and supportive. I try to stay connected to that and contribute as much as I can.”

Trying Long Has Beens I Can Term Groups Huge Blessed Connected Long Term Supportive

Author:Jim James

“All my friends were black and Mexican. I was the only white kid in our group and had to work hard to be accepted. Year after year, we'd breakdance and we all became close and they labeled me "Vanilla" - like "Hey, Vanilla" and they knew I hated it, so of course they kept calling me it.”

Years Hard Kids Courses Black White Groups Hard Work Calling My Friends Accepted Hey Hated Mexican Vanilla

Author:Vanilla Ice

“You've got so many groups that have no voice in this world - the indigenous, the poor. So how can I use the resources that I have and bring them up, highlight them. And it's not that difficult. It's just choosing and concentrating and focusing.”

World Use Difficult Voice Poor Groups This World Resources Indigenous Concentrating Highlights

Author:Anita Roddick

“In the culture of America, in a free culture, you get what you celebrate. And in this culture, we have two obsessions, become a group that becomes a group that celebrates sports heroes and entertainment heroes. There's no room left for kids to see even a little bit of the opportunities to really, really get excited about becoming an inventor, an engineer, or a scientist, a problem solver.”

“Well, I came down to LA initially to join The Groundlings, which is an improv comedy group. I didn't get in, of course, becaue I'm not a part of The Groundlings. I just assumed that I could walk in and take over. So they said: "Hit the road Jack." And I ended up getting an agent instead. They sent me out on a couple of leads and I ended up on a sitcom and Van Wilder thereafter and then pantsless with Sandra Bullock.”

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Author:Ryan Reynolds

“It's all about respect; he's looking for respect from his buddies. In the last one he just wanted to hang out, to be part of the group, but this time he wants more from his friends. And without giving the story away, he finally gets something that he has been looking for when the mini sloths kidnap him and take him to their tribal area. He gets to be the Fire King and they worship him and there is an amazing scene with a "call and response" sequence in the style of Cab Callow [the legendary American jazz singer and band leader] between him and his audience.”

Want Giving Has Beens Stories Wanted Lasts Leader Audience Fire Groups Style Kings Scene Band Worship Areas Jazz Response Singers Hanging Out Sequence Buddy Sloth Legendary Cab

Author:John Leguizamo

“I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months. The funny thing is that I actually took classes from Savion Glover, who worked in Happy Feet, when I was a kid. Isn't that wild? I was part of a selected group that was brought into New York from New Jersey (which is where I'm from) to study, every Saturday: ballet, jazz and tap. It was a musical comedy group.”

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Author:Brittany Murphy

“Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa.”

People Writing Two Sometimes Play Certain Process Groups Vices Screens Collaboration Vice Versa Collaborators Lennon

Author:Peter Jackson

“'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens