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“If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Looks Bigs Chance Records Groups Achieve Achievement Very Good Candidates Big Things Small Things Good Chance

Author:Edmund Hillary

“It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to group.”

Should Facts Space Animal Wonder Wonderful Groups Plant All Time Related Time And Space Familiarity Subordinates Origin Of Species

Book:On the Origin of Species

Source: On the Origin of Species

“Men, as an organization, are getting more women than any other group working anywhere in the world. Wherever women are, we have men looking into it.”

Men World Groups Organization

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs.”

Knows Evil Groups Controlled

Author:Woody Allen

“The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.”

Groups Meetings Size Usefulness Murphys Law

Author:Lane Kirkland

“An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.”

People World Wealth Groups Billions Elites Cents

Author:John Pilger

“Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure.”

Groups Adventure

Book:Information Anxiety 2

Source: Information Anxiety 2

“European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.”

“[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.”

Source: The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People

“When the Goths are at the gates, forming study groups and praying for deliverance is not effective defense.”

Study Groups Praying Defense Gates Deliverance Goth Study Group

Author:G. Edward Griffin

“That's always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they're passionate about. It's that through the team, through that group of incredibly talented people bumping up against each other, having arguments, having fights sometimes, making some noise, and working together they polish each other and they polish the ideas, and what comes out are these really beautiful stones.”

People Mind Ideas Sometimes Hard Together Beautiful Fighting Groups Team Argument Stones Metaphor Passionate Noise Working Together Polish Really Beautiful Team Working Working Really Hard

Author:Steve Jobs

“You can draw a line between what I'm interested in and what I'm not interested in. On one side you can name Dylan and Lennon, who observe the world and have feelings, and write songs directly from those feelings. On the vapid side you have pop groups who need material and write songs to fill the hole, rather than getting somebody else.”

World Needs Writing Feelings Song Names Sides Lines Groups Materials Draws Pops Holes Not Interested Dylan Lennon Vapid

Author:Roger Waters

“It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.”

States Groups Policy Importance Increase Privilege Distinction Hardship Deliberate Scarcity

Book:1984

Source: 1984

“A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far.”

People Would Be Sound Groups University Bridges Homeless Principled Homeless People

Author:Ward Churchill

“The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.”

Law Life Is Groups Personality Valuable Permit Reciprocity

Author:Norman Thomas

“People are less than whole unless they gather themselves voluntarily into groups of souls in harmony. Gathering themselves to pursue individual, family, and community dreams consistent with their private humanity is what makes them whole; only slaves are gathered by others.”

People Soul Whole Dream Humanity Individual Community Groups Harmony Slave Pursue Consistent Gathering

Book:Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.”

Men Imagine Groups Modern Vices Tendencies Ethical Modern Man

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“Climbing is often group activity and it's always inspiring to see how other people, who share your passions, do things.”

People Passion Groups Share Activity Climbing

Author:Fred Nicole

“One whose troops repeatedly congregate in small groups here and there, whispering together, has lost the masses. One who frequently grants rewards is in deep distress. One who frequently imposes punishments is in great difficulty. One who is at first excessively brutal and then fears the masses is the pinnacle of stupidity.”

Firsts Together Lost Groups Mass Difficulty Rewards Stupidity Punishment Grants Troops Brutal Distress Here And There Whispering Small Groups Pinnacle

Author:Sun Tzu

“That is the American experiment. An ethnic group arriving on America's shores, to be reviled and hazed, living in squalor, or if they are lucky Squalor Heights, working hard to give their children or grandchildren the opportunity to sh*t on the next group landing on our shores.”

Ifs Giving Children Hard America Next Opportunity Groups Lucky Experiments Height Shore Grandchildren Landing Arriving Ethnic Groups Squalor

Author:Jon Stewart

“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

“Severe initiations increase a member's liking for the group.”

Groups Members Increase Severe Initiation

Book:Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

Source: Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

“There are fields of scientific work...which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and neurophysiology...in which every single notion receives a separate and different name from each group, and in which important work has been triplicated or quadruplicated, while still other important work is delayed by the unavailability in one field of results that may have already become classical in the next field.”

“In the natural order no matter what ideals may be theoretically possible, most people more or less live for themselves and for their own interests and pleasures or for those of their own family or group, and therefore they are constantly interfering with one another's aims, and hurting one another and injuring one another, whether they mean it or not.”

People May Mean Matter Order Interest Natural Hurt Pleasure Groups Ideals Aim No Matter What Interfere Natural Order

Book:The Seven Storey Mountain

Source: The Seven Storey Mountain

“There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time.”

Philosophy Next Individual Groups Waste Decided Wasting Time Laziness Godliness Nothing New

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“The word religion literally means, in Latin, to link or bind together; and despite the vast variation in the world's religions, Wilson shows that religions always serve to coordinate and orient people's behavior toward each other and toward the group as a whole, sometimes for the purpose of competing with other groups.”

People World Mean Sometimes Whole Shows Together Purpose Groups Behavior Despite Latin Links Competing Variation Wilson Coordinates

Book:The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.”

Self Found Sacrifice Groups Species Soldier Extremes Characteristics Bees Ants Self Sacrifice Selected Often Is

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.”

People Feelings Government America Political Purpose Community Common Groups Duty Institutions Common Sense Political Institutions

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“I have a very eclectic group of fans. I have fans that love me for me and who have never even seen my adult work. They just like my music, or they just like me.”

Groups Fans Adults Like Me Eclectic

Author:Sasha Grey

“If the picture is not an artistic picture, it's show, like television. Television series are very funny, but it's a collective production. An industrial art. A car is not made by a person, it's made by a group of creators, only to go to the market to buy your cigarettes. That is a car - they are not a big art, they are a little art.”

Ifs Littles Persons Art Made Shows Bigs Groups Car Television Series Productions Creator Artistic Collectives Cigarette

Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky

“I've always been interested in people that you wouldn't see otherwise. If you look back at my books, photographs, and films-and since I'm doing this retrospective I've been forced to look back-the work is always about a small group of people who are somewhat isolated, and who you would never see if I didn't film or photograph them.”

People Ifs Looks Book Film Groups Photograph Isolated Small Groups Retrospective

Author:Larry Clark

“Heads of state are actually prisoners of special interest groups.”

States Interest Groups Special Prisoner Special Interests Interest Groups Head Of State Special Interest Groups

Author:Deepak Chopra

“If you look at all the lobbyists in Washington, this is not a democracy. This is ruled by special interest groups. That includes the military, the pharmaceutical industry, the people who produce mechanized debt, GMO foods. We are prisoners.”

“What's the job of the candidate in this world? The job of the candidate is to raise the money to hire the consultants to do the focus groups to figure out the 30-second answers to be memorized by the candidate. This is stunningly dangerous.”

World Jobs Answers Focus Groups Dangerous Figures This World Raises Candidates Consultants Focus Groups

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists.”

Men Littles States Past Political Groups Prejudice Lifts Staff Economist Curtains Projection Partisans

Book:Freedom and reality

Source: Freedom and reality

“That is the operatic problem; the singer must keep up a big head of steam while trying to appear secretive, or seductive, or consumptive. Some ingenious composer should write an opera about a group of people who were condemned by a cruel god to scream all the time; it would be an instantaneous success, and a triumph of versimilitude.”

People Should Writing Trying Problem Bigs Would Be Groups Singers Triumph Scream Opera Composer Steam Seductive Ingenious Secretive Instantaneous Big Heads

Book:The papers of Samuel Marchbanks

Source: The papers of Samuel Marchbanks

“A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a meaning for the man who composed it. Here is the difference between the classical and romantic attitudes to art.”

Men Art Social Differences Attitude Groups He Man Symphony Social Groups Mahler

Author:Anthony Burgess

“A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.”

Political Politics Groups Modern Television Revolutionary Stations Hippie

Author:Abbie Hoffman

“One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.”

Mean States Political Groups Policy Theory Election Investment Sentences Occasions Investors Economist Outstanding Ferguson

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I am an author-illustrator of children's books - and yet - I must confess I don't do the books for the kids. When I'm working on a book I'm somewhere else - at the circus - or a rustic old farm - or deep in a forest - with no thought of who might read the book or what age group it would appeal to. I write them so I can illustrate them.”

Writing Children I Can Book Might Kids Age Groups Forests Appeals Farms Somewhere Else Circus Children's Books Illustrators Rustic

Author:Bill Peet

“If Americans are frustrated with Congress, imagine their frustration with a group of international bank officials running our ecomomy-bankers who may not have as their motive either to see us out of debt to them or to strengthen our economy, society, international influence, or other elements of our way of life.”

Ifs Way May Running Economy Imagine Groups Influence Elements International Congress Debt Motive Officials Frustration Frustrated Bankers

Author:Oliver DeMille

“I try to tell each group that it is not alone, and that the very people who are disheartened by the absence of a national movement are themselves proof of the potential for such a movement.”

People Trying Groups Movement Proof Absence Not Alone Disheartened

Book:A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

Source: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

“I love support groups, people talking about their feelings.”

People Feelings Talking Support Groups People Talking Support Groups

Author:Maria Bamford

“We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.”

Art Groups Hammers Screenplays

Author:Bill Paxton

“The inspiration was this great group of 40 or 50 relatives, sometimes for Thanksgiving or Passover or something and my brothers would just go up and make them laugh.”

Sometimes Inspiration Laughing Groups Brother My Brother

Author:Billy Crystal

“The U.S. was founded by a group of political leaders who signed a document which says, "We are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights." That means that all of your political rights come from God and you then loan some of your power to the State which is why the Constitution begins, "We, the People of the United States.”

People Mean States Political Certain United Leader United States Rights Groups Constitution Creator Documents Loan Political Leaders Inalienable Rights Political Rights

Author:Newt Gingrich

“If the majority is moral then why do they need to be ruled by a group of people who are power hungry and gun hungry and probably not quite so good? And evil people want two things: they want something for nothing, and to escape the consequences of their actions, which is pretty much the definition of what government is.”

People Ifs Want Needs Two Government Action Evil Moral Groups Gun Consequence Majority Definitions Hungry Two Things Good And Evil Want Something Evil People Power Hungry

Author:Stefan Molyneux

“There are a host of ethnic minorities in China but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small in total number. History has taught the Han that other groups will and should ultimately be absorbed and assimilated as Han. There is a belief that the Han enjoy a superior and far more advanced culture.”

Should Culture Belief Enjoy Numbers Groups Identity Taught Weak China Superiors Minorities Host

Author:Martin Jacques

“Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.”

Christian Religious Groups Proud Civilization Ten Unique Ancient Various Minorities Syria Spectrum Heirs Denominations Ancient Civilizations

Author:Ahmed H. Zewail

“From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.”

Facts Law Desire Groups Youth Strongest

Book:On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection

Source: On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection

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