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“It is not possible to starve an organised terrorist group because it is number one a state, so it levies taxation inside the territory that is controlled by Islamic State. But also the activity, for example the smuggling of oil, is taking place in an area which is a war zone. So of course people will buy that oil because they don't have any alternative. So even if we wanted to stop that kind of trade, it will be very, very difficult to do that.”

“Well, I think here there is some money gathered, especially in Europe, through the web, through connection to a network. I mean, imagine that in Brussels there is only one person, one single person, which is monitoring the traffic that goes on on the internet for the jihadist groups. In Strasbourg there are two people. So I mean you can imagine how easy it is to raise money through the net.”

People Thinking Wells Mean Persons Two Easy Imagine Groups Goes On Internet Europe Connections Raises Imagine That Traffic Single Person Monitoring Brussels

Author:Loretta Napoleoni

“When you question a man's motives, when you say they are acting out of greed, they are in the pocket of an interest group, et cetera. It's awful hard to reach consensus. It's awful hard to reach across the table and shake hands. No matter how bitterly you disagree, though, it is always possible if you question judgment and not motive.”

Ifs Men Matter Hard Hands Interest Acting Groups Judgment Tables Greed Awful Motive Shakes Pockets Disagree Consensus Interest Groups Acting Out

Author:Joe Biden

“One of the lessons we've learned from the last 25 years of terrorism is that groups that have safe havens are able to develop external attack capabilities in a way that groups that don't have safe havens are not. So we need to find a way to squeeze them significantly in their safe haven. Taking away territory that really matters to them is really, really important because it prevents them from focusing on external attacks.”

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Author:Michael Morell

“We are going to be able to defeat ISIS on the ground there, as well as in this world, because of the Muslim Americans in our country and throughout the world who understand that this brutal and barbaric group is perverting the name of a great world religion.”

World Wells Country Able Names Groups This World Defeat Our Country Brutal Isis Barbaric World Religions

Author:Martin O'Malley

“I grew up in repertory theaters, so it was comedy one night, drama the next. I'm used to going from one to the other. And I worked for years in television as well. So, I like the interrelationship of it and having a good relationship with a group of artists creating something really where the sum is greater than all of our individual contributions, our parts.”

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Author:Howard Shore

“I think there are contractual problems with me doing more than a couple, but I would love to go back. I just have a lot of fondness for that show, and for the people. When you get something off the ground, it's fantastic and you feel really close to that group of people. Wherever Selfie goes, the fact that we birthed it, we'll always be tied together that way.”

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Author:John Cho

“Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.”

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Book:Glory Road

Source: Glory Road

“I feel myself the inheritor of a great background of people. Just who, precisely, they were, I have never known. I might be part Negro, might be part Jew, part Muslim, part Irish. So I can't afford to be supercilious about any group of people because I may be that people.”

People Feels May I Can Might Known Groups Jew Backgrounds Supercilious

Author:James A. Michener

“For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.”

Mean Art Groups Allies Ruling

Book:Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

Source: Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

“And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.”

Men Mind War Force Groups Concepts Extermination

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Believing that war is contrary to the will of God and to common sense, and feeling that the way of peace is the way of love, I shall work for peace by using the way of love myself, by helping any group I am part of to use it, by helping the nation of which I am a citizen to use it, by helping the United Nations to use it, and by praying that the way of love be used all over the world.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“No one walks so safely as one who walks humbly and harmlessly with great love and great faith. For such a person gets through to the good in others (and there is good in everyone), and therefore cannot be harmed. This works between individuals, it works between groups and it would work between nations if nations had the courage to try it.”

Ifs Trying Persons Individual Nations Walks Groups Great Love Great Faith

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Never underestimate the power of a loosely knit group working for a good cause. All of us who work for peace together, all of us who pray for peace together, are a small minority, but a powerful spiritual fellowship. Our power is beyond our numbers.”

Together Spiritual Causes Powerful Numbers Groups Praying Minorities Underestimate Fellowship Never Underestimate Good Causes Pray For Peace

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“I talk to groups studying the most advanced spiritual teachings and sometimes these people wonder why nothing is happening in their lives. Their motive is the attainment of inner peace for themselves - which of course is a selfish motive. You will not find it with this motive. The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course, service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a New York patriot, for instance, and if I lived in Los Angeles, I would love to get together with other New York expatriates and sing "Give My Regards to Broadway".”

Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir

“The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world. Humanity cannot afford to waste its financial and emotional resources on endless, meaningless quarrels between each group and all others. there must be a sense of globalism in which the world unites to solve the real problems that face all groups alike.”

Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir

“During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands.... The naive might call that democracy, but that's because they don't understand. The sophisticated understand that that's the crisis of democracy.”

People Trying Might Political Democracy Groups Demand Crisis Presses Passive Sophisticated Arena Naive 1960s Apathetic Large Groups

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.”

Individual Numbers Rights Groups Members Collectives

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“I came to the realization that a strong female is frightening to everybody, because all societies are male-dominated, black societies, poor people, rich people, any racial group, they're all dominated by men. A strong female is going to threaten everybody across the board...”

People Men Strong Black Poor Rich Groups Female Males Realization Boards Frightening Poor People Rich People Strong Female

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I've gone from having a huge fan base to losing a huge fan base to having a kind of fluctuating fan base. I've always had a core of fans who've stuck by me but, depending on the kind of music I do, I end up appealing to certain groups of people and alienating others.”

People Kind Ends Certain Gone Groups Fans Huge Losing Core Stuck

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“It is really refreshing to hear a big band that has the ability to execute ensemble passages with swing and precision while retaining a "small group" feel during the solo sections. This kind of "tight, loose" approach is seldom heard in big bands, whether they are professional or not. Now, all the band needs is to hit the road and take the music around the world!”

World Needs Feels Kind Bigs Ability Heard Groups Band Approach Around The World Passages Swings Solo Sections Precision Refreshing Small Groups Ensemble Retaining

Author:John Patitucci

“Once again, in the fine tradition of North Texas Lab Bands, this is truly a superb band. Under the artful leadership of Neil Slater, these great musicians have managed to combine small group "openness" with the swinging precision of a classic big band. Very enjoyable!”

Bigs Groups Fine Band Musician Tradition Classic Openness Texas Enjoyable Precision Great Music Labs Small Groups Superb Great Musician

Author:Michael Brecker

“The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and belief. So if this is a novel about migration it must be that act of putting in question. It must perform the crisis it describes.”

Ifs Culture Individual Belief Novel Groups Identity Crisis Migration

Author:Salman Rushdie

“We don't properly discriminate. We never discriminate properly when we're dealing with another group and one of the big problems about religion is that religious people don't know that they are probably as flagrant in these misjudgments as irreligious people.”

People Knows Problem Bigs Religious Groups Big Problems

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust in paper money: it makes no sense when you really think about it. New artistic images are so vulnerable to opinion that it wouldn't take much more than a whim for a small group of collectors to decide that a contemporary artist was not so wonderful anymore, was so last year.”

“There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England.... Everybody was in a skiffle group..All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass..you only needed two chords; Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle, that's all it is.”

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Author:George Harrison

“Most people who'll remember me, if at all, will remember me as an action guy, which is okay. There's nothing wrong with that. But there will be a certain group which will remember me for the other films, the ones where I took a few chances. At least, I like to think so.”

People Ifs Thinking Action Remember Film Guy Certain Chance Groups Okay Remember Me

Author:Clint Eastwood

“No church group that knows spiritual warfare has wiener roasts or even passion plays. There is a real warfare. I have said before that we are an arrogant, self-styled bunch of believers. We "believe" to the point of inconvenience - and then quit.”

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Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement.”

Humans Enough Social Animal Brain Groups Handle Complexity Arrangements Primates

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the epidemic spread of shared ideals needs to be particularly cognizant of the perils of the bigness. Crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference.”

Needs Bigs Social Differences Church Lines Groups Activity Members Ideals Clubs Spread Banking Expanding Peril Crossings Epidemics Small Changes Cognizant

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so as to get even more money for your special-interest group.Social democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to promise sufficient government benefits to enough voters to gain control over the government's guns so as to keep any other special-interest group from getting as much power as yours.”

“The difference between a healthy group or organization and an unhealthy one lies in its members' awareness and ability to acknowledge their felt needs to conform.”

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Book:Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society

Source: Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society

“I'm one of the people that were divorced by 30, which is apparently a growing group... Obviously it's something that affects you forever. It's going to be interesting to see in ten, twenty years what kind of lasting effect young divorce has on the people that are doing it because it's becoming more and more common.”

People Years Kind Young Interesting Common Forever Growing Groups Effects Becoming Ten Twenties Divorce Lasting Divorced Becoming More

Author:Diablo Cody

“The emerging whole manifests locally. It manifests in particular communities, groups, and, ultimately, in us as individuals.”

Whole Individual Community Groups Particular Emerging

Book:Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society

Source: Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society

“Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations and enabled new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science and revolution, the telephone enabled bureaucracy and globalization, the internet enabled virtual communities and electronic markets, the mobile telephone enabled smart mobs and tribes of info-nomads.”

“There are always two kinds of people in every country: Progressives and reactionaries; wise people and ignorant; democrats and fascists; libertarians and oppressive. All struggles happen between these two parties. If you are in the first group, your greatest reward will be dignity and victory!”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Two Country Happens Party Struggle Wise Groups Victory Dignity Democrat Rewards Libertarian Ignorant Fascists Reactionaries Wise People

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“All the great enterprises of the world are run by a few smart men: their aides and associates run down by rapid stages to the level of sheer morons. Everyone knows that this is true of government, but we often forget that it is equally true of private undertakings. In the average great bank, or railroad, or other corporation the burden of management lies upon a small group. The rest are ciphers.”

Source: Minority Report

“Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line, 'How many years can a people exist, before they're allowed to be free?' in a prison yard for political prisoners in El Salvador; if you have sung it to a group of union organizers, who have all been in jail, in South Korea; if you've sung to Jews in the Soviet Union who have been refused exit visas; if you've sung it with Bishop Tutu protesting apartheid, the song breathes, it lives, it has a contemporary currency.”

“There has to be a certain amount of love just in order for you to survive together. I think a lot of groups have gone down the tubes because they were not able to relate to one another.”

Thinking Able Together Certain Order Gone Groups Amount Relate Tubes

Author:Mary Travers

“Competing against each other leaves little space for reciprocity and the growth of social capital. Running against another in a race may benefit our speed, but jointly organising the sports day produces cooperation and trust. There are many situations where cooperation and reciprocity are more effective than competition. Civic virtues come from building on what we have in common rather than by using our differences to create in-groups, outgroups and fear driven competition”

“Don't underestimate the value people place on authenticity. Politicians listen to the focus groups and say the things they think people want to hear. But after 30 years of reading consumers, I know that they can smell phonies.”

People Thinking Knows Want Years Values Reading Focus Groups Politician Smell Authenticity Consumers Underestimate Phony Focus Groups

Author:Rochelle B Lazarus

“I did most of my volunteer work when I was in college because I knew of more ways to get involved. In high school, we'd do things like, there was a homeless shelter near our hometown and our church group decorated one of the rooms. In college, I was in a sorority, and we did a lot of things, like pick up trash on the highway.”

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Author:Carrie Underwood

“I'm kind of proud of that little record! I mean I've heard about a million other records that have come out since then by all these groups around here and there and I really like 'Little Johnny Jewel'.”

Kind Mean Littles Millions Records Heard Groups Proud Jewels Here And There

Author:Tom Verlaine

“The whole reputation of being a rock guitar player, I could really care less about it. Still, when I hear new groups today I do occasionally hear something where I think... ahh, I've heard that lick before.”

Thinking Stills Whole Care Today Player Heard Groups Rocks Guitar Reputation Guitar Player

Author:Tom Verlaine

“The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds.”

People Problem Groups Smart Independent Crowds Paradox

Author:James Surowiecki

“Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer.Â He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song.Â But the poor fellow topped himself.Â He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now.Â It was a terrible loss.”

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Author:Paul McCartney

“Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.”

People Want Film Guy Sound Groups Special Independent Tables Driving Setting Producers Settings Lunch Vans Pitching Love Making Independent Film Small Groups

Author:Olivia Thirlby

“Without prolonged moments of adoration, of prayerful encounter with the word, of sincere conversation with the Lord, our work easily becomes meaningless; we lose energy as a result of weariness and difficulties, and our fervor dies out. The Church urgently needs the deep breath of prayer, and to my great joy groups devoted to prayer and intercession, the prayerful reading of God's word and the perpetual adoration of the Eucharist are growing at every level of ecclesial life.”

Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation

“It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions is the word you are struggling hypocritially to avoid.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

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