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“The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and one that I hope will keep readers all over the UK exploring and sharing the wonderful world of books.”

People World Book Ideas School Reading Wonderful Groups Reader Exciting Aim Library Exploring Literacy School Library Wonderful World

Author:Tessa Jowell

“The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling on a global scale, hiring executives and consultants ranging from Republican power broker James Baker and former president George Herbert Walker Bush to foreign leaders like former British prime minister John Major and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos.”

“By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful conservative groups themselves - will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence.”

Able America Powerful Groups Influence Military Increase Institutions Conservative Corporate Organized Bias Scrutiny Accusation Organized Religion Corporate America

Author:Eric Alterman

“Quit Iraq Study Group to avoid politicizing it.”

Study Groups Iraq Quitting Study Group

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“You ever notice that? Any time you see two groups of people who really hate each other, chances are good they're wearing different kind of hats. Keep an eye on that, it might be important.”

People Kind Two Important Different Might Eye Hate Chance Groups Hats Different Kinds Chances Are

Author:George Carlin

“I am going to name a group of my kids after my favorite cartoons, I am going to name them after Transformers.”

Kids Names Groups My Favorite Cartoon

Author:Dane Cook

“Endless drama in a group clouds consciousness. Too much noise overwhelms the senses. Continual input obscures genuine insight. Do not substitute sensationalism for learning.”

Consciousness Too Much Groups Drama Clouds Insight Senses Genuine Endless Noise Substitutes Input Sensationalism

Book:The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

Source: The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

“Perhaps the most promising trend in our thinking about leadership is the growing conviction that the purposes of the group are best served when the leader helps followers develop their own initiative, strengthens them in the use of their own judgment, enables them to grow, and to become better contributors.”

Thinking Helping Use Purpose Grows Leader Growing Groups Judgment Conviction Trends Followers Initiative Contributors

Book:LEADERSHIP PAPERS/3: THE HEART OF THE MATTER LEADER-CONSTITUENT INTERACTION

Source: LEADERSHIP PAPERS/3: THE HEART OF THE MATTER LEADER-CONSTITUENT INTERACTION

“Therefore, the two processes, that of science and that of art, are not very different. Both science and art form in the course of the centuries a human language by which we can speak about the more remote parts of reality, and the coherent sets of concepts as well as the different styles of art are different words or groups of words in this language.”

Humans Wells Art Two Different Reality Form Courses Speak Language Process Groups Century Style Concepts Art And Science Different Styles Human Language

Author:Werner Heisenberg

“Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.”

Thinking World Has Beens Suffering Groups World History Afghan

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“I met Keith Haring at SVA college where he was having an art show, later we had a group art show at the Mud Club in NYC. Keith owed me $50, so he gave me a large framed canvas with barking dogs that had large dicks. I painted over Keith's painting to paint flowers for my mom's living room.”

Art Shows Rooms Groups Dog College Painting Flower Mom Mets Paint Clubs My Mom Canvas Mud Living Room Framed Keith Nyc Barking Dogs

Author:Steve Kaufman

“I am in an age group where it is rude to discuss money, and now it is all anyone cares about.”

Care Age Groups Rude

Author:Jack Nicholson

“Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.”

Teacher Groups Civilization Guardian

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Was it a good idea to spend taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland, or on windmills in China? Was it a good idea to borrow all this money from countries like China and spend it on all these various different interest groups?”

Ideas Different Country Interest Groups Car Dollars Various China Good Ideas Electric Taxpayers Interest Groups Finland Windmills Electric Car

Author:Paul Ryan

“It's a group of guys that put their mind to going out and playing great football. Everybody that needed to step up, stepped up. Everybody that needed to make a play, made a play and that's what it's all about.”

Mind Made Play Guy Steps Groups Football Needed Going Out Step Up Great Football

Author:Kurt Warner

“People (a group that in my opinion has always attracted an undue amount of attention) have often been likened to snowflakes. This analogy is meant to suggest that each is unique - no two alike. This is quite patently not the case. People, even at the current rate of inflation - in fact, people especially at the current rate of inflation - are quite simply a dime a dozen. And, I hasten to add, their only similarity to snowflakes resides in their invariably and lamentable tendency to turn, after a few warm days, to slush.”

People Two Facts Turns Attention Opinion Cases Groups Amount Unique Add Rate Currents Warm Tendencies Dozen Inflation Similarity Analogies Dimes Snowflake Slush

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.”

Whole Shows Creative Groups Research Thoughtful Minorities Absent Dissent

Book:The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil

Source: The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil

“Back in the days, the groups and the bands that we listened to were like Earth, Wind and Fire, Santana and Grateful Dead. We don't have a lot of those bands anymore.”

Earth Fire Groups Wind Band Grateful Santana

Author:Sheila E.

“Modern problems proliferate and remain unsolved because we spend so much time trying to deal with societal and world problems without first dealing with family and community problems. If we organized for normal families and communities - if these two groups provided the functions they are designed for - world problems would diminish and fade out in two or three generations.”

Ifs World Trying Firsts Two Problem Three Community Deals Generations Groups Modern Normal Function Organized Fades Diminish World Problems Three Generations Normal Family

Author:Ralph Borsodi

“Our country today is at a cross-point of several crises that were triggered by three groups of causes: the effects of the 2008 world crisis, the external political and economic pressure, and the internal problems and constraints that have built up in our economy”

World Country Problem Today Political Three Causes Economy Groups Economic Effects Built Crosses Pressure Crisis Our Country Internals Constraints

Author:Dmitry Medvedev

“If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.”

Ifs Giving Ideas Groups Come Up Good Ideas Mediocre Screws

Author:Edwin Catmull

“The close relationships we form between researchers and product groups have already shown we can move the great ideas as they come along, without a schedule, into the products.”

Ideas Moving Form Groups Products Schedules Great Idea Researchers Close Relationship

Book:Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur

Source: Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur

“Though representatives of many ethnic groups came together in the United States, English became their common language. Apparently, this was a natural choice. One can imagine what would have happened if members of each nation moving to the U.S. had spoken only their own tongues and refused to learn English.”

Ifs States Together Moving Choices Language Nations Natural United Common United States Imagine Happened Groups Members Tongue Representatives Ethnic Groups Common Language

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.”

Ifs Believe Language I Believe Groups Minorities English Language American Life Minority Groups

Author:S. I. Hayakawa

“Your peer group are people with similar dreams, goals and worldviews. They are people who will push you in exchange for being pushed, who will raise the bar and tell you the truth. They're not in your business, but they're in your shoes. Finding a peer group and working with them, intentionally and on a regular schedule, might be the single biggest boost your career can experience.”

People Dream Might Goal Careers Groups Findings Raises Shoes Bars Peers Schedules Worldview Boost Raising The Bar Peer Group

Author:Seth Godin

“Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.”

Needs States Done Individual Belief Nations Church Groups Mad Possession Harm Wicked Sole Mistaken Tribes Suppressing Restraining

Author:Isaiah Berlin

“I don't do group sex. I don't like being in a roomful of all my homeys giving high-fives and yelling, 'Switch!'”

Giving Sex Groups Yelling

Author:Tyrese Gibson

“Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.”

Problem Home Numbers Growing Up Growing Trouble Groups Months Institutions Hospitals Locked Locked Up Psychiatric Psychiatric Hospitals

Author:Gbenga Akinnagbe

“Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.”

Knows Persons Groups Worst Frightened Never Fear

Book:The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

“Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social.”

Social Groups Relation Social Groups

Author:John Dewey

“If you have that group of people who are both nice and also creative, then you have surprises like a room with monkeys in them. That has taken a very good scene and just made it a great scene. I want my movies to be visually interesting and to have a lot of energy and be colorful and full of life.”

People Ifs Want Made Energy Interesting Rooms Creative Taken Nice Groups Scene Surprise Very Good Made It Monkeys Colorful

Author:Richard Shepard

“Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by.”

Feels Bigs Government Interest Doubt Groups Special Resources Organization Casts Threatened Special Interests Multinationals Doubt And Fear

Author:Arlo Guthrie

“Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That's true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times. This subjectivity is often masked when your in a group because laughter is contagious.”

People Different Individual Groups Type Laughter Subjective Different Peoples Contagious Subjectivity Different Times

Author:Robert Mankoff

“There's not really much of an opportunity for a girl from Georgia like me or a girl like Aja (Evans) from Chicago to grow up bobsledding. I think it's great that we have such a diverse group.”

Thinking Girl Opportunity Grows Growing Up Groups Like Me Chicago Diverse Georgia

Author:Elana Meyers

“We need to have a resolve that will bring the world together to root out the kind of radical jihadist ideology that motivates organizations like ISIS, a barbaric, ruthless, violent jihadist, terrorist group.”

World Needs Kind Together Groups Roots Organization Terrorist Violent Ideology Radical Resolve Isis Ruthless Barbaric Terrorist Groups

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Pakistan is, I always feel, hopeful. You know, our system of government is not, and the system of foreign policy whereby we do whatever is asked of us as long as the price is right only proves to fundamentalist outfits and to militant groups that when we talk of things like democracy, when we talk of things like foreign policy, what we're really talking about is being pro-American.”

Knows Feels Long Government Talking Democracy Groups Policy Prove Hopeful Foreign Policy Pakistan Fundamentalist Militant Outfits Systems Of Government

Author:Fatima Bhutto

“I think there are many experts who say, in fact, the most powerful nations on earth are more vulnerable today than the weaker nations because they're the targets of so many of these groups that are trying to steal, to buy, to build nuclear weapons.”

Thinking Trying Facts Today Earth Nations Powerful Groups Weapons Nuclear Stealing Vulnerable Experts Most Powerful Target Nuclear Weapons

Author:Queen Noor of Jordan

“Personally I'm an advocate for healthy marriages and families and I do a lot of speaking around the country sharing my faith and talking to women's groups, even specifically about marriage.”

Country Talking Groups Healthy Marriage And Family Healthy Marriage

Author:Candace Cameron

“Smart brands never try to appeal to more than their audience group. Assuming you're audience is one of the segments that watches, it's your chance to galvanize this specific group, which is larger here than anywhere else, with a bold new idea that can re-magnetize the human/brand connection for a new year.”

Trying Years Humans Ideas Chance Watches Audience Groups Smart Connections Assuming Brands Appeals New Year New Ideas

Author:Joshua Rogers

“While we've made progress with our numbers, this will be a harder-to-reach group, and we have less money to do it.... Many people don't know or understand about the tax credit that they can receive. And so affordability is a barrier. We know that a disproportionate number of those who are still uninsured are young.”

People Knows Made Stills Young Numbers Progress Groups Taxes Harder Credit Barriers Affordability

Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell

“When I was about 13 or 14. I was in a Kingston Trio type group. We evolved into the New Breed. Our first song on the radio was "Green Eyed Woman," not to be confused with "Green Eyed Lady".”

Firsts Song Groups Type Green Radio Confused Green Eyes Trios

Author:Timothy B. Schmit

“I think there is more creative freedom as a solo artist by far because you might get a group push back on an idea because it's more of a democratic process. You can sink or swim on your own ideas on a solo project.”

Thinking Ideas Might Artist Process Creative Groups Projects Democratic Swim Solo Democratic Process Creative Freedom Sink Or Swim

Author:Myka 9

“The NGOs in Israel should devote more time to monitoring religious anti-Israel groups, chief among them the so-called "Christian Palestinianists."”

Should Christian Religious Groups Israel Chiefs More Time Monitoring

Author:Manfred Gerstenfeld

“We have to separate here the church in its broad sense. We have Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox churches. The Catholic church is a corporation like a chief executive. A fairly homogenous operation. Today its attitude toward anti-Semitism is much more severe than it's ever been. The Catholic Church today is much less the problem than the other groups.”

“Protestants are the more segmented group. Mainline churches - you have problems in the U.S., Europe, the Scottish Church, the Dutch Protestant Church, the state church in Norway. The evangelicals have been pro Israel, but a major effort is to bring them in on the Palestinian side. A huge problem and the problems are rising.”

Has Beens States Problem Sides Church Effort Groups Huge Majors Europe Israel Rising Palestinian Protestants Scottish Dutch Norway

Author:Manfred Gerstenfeld

“Journalists are divided into two groups: those who live by ethics, and those who don't.”

Two Groups Ethics Journalist Live By Divided

Author:Manfred Gerstenfeld

“There's over 100 species of lemurs. Each is a little bit different in their social structure except for one thing: they are all female dominant. The females are the leaders. They are the ones that call the shots. When you watch a group, you can see the females are the first one to say “We’re going to move.” Then she moves off and everybody just follows.”

Firsts Littles Different Moving Social Bits Leader Watches One Thing Groups Little Bit Shots Female Structure Species Dominant Social Structure Lemurs

Author:Patricia Wright

“What I love about the Bible is that it's a group of stories but it's all telling one main story. It's about Jesus Christ. The story is not about me. That takes a lot of the pressure off me, but it also puts the responsibility on me to point people to who the true story is about.”

People Stories Jesus Christ Responsibility Groups Jesus Christ Pressure True Story

Author:Matt Diaz

“It would be nice to be a professional pilot. I'm an amateur pilot at the moment. I've got a lot of friends in the RAF and I don't think I've ever met a group of people who love their job as much as they do.”

People Thinking Moments Would Be Jobs Nice Groups Mets Pilots Being Nice Lots Of Friends Raf

Author:Martin Shaw

“My parents always have taught me 'you're good enough'. So, whenever I got bad comments from the judges, or I'd get on the Internet and read what bloggers have written about me, I would get so down, and I would get so sad. The biggest support group was obviously my parents, and I'd call them. And they'd build me up.”

Enough Parent Support Written Groups Taught Judging Internet Down And Good Enough Comment So Sad Bloggers Support Groups

Author:Carmen Rasmusen

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