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“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.”

“When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.”

Groups Can Not Say Anything

Author:Gloria Steinem

“The votes elected officials make should be based on the best interests of the American people, not the fear of retribution when shadowy groups spend millions of dollars on negative advertisements.”

People Should Interest Millions Groups Negative Vote Dollars Officials Retribution Advertisements Elected Officials

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.”

Simple Responsibility Groups Pure Excellence Pursuit Assumption Pursuit Of Excellence

Author:Philip Selznick

“The promotion of human rights remains the most effective strategy for eliminating inequalities between countries and social groups, and for increasing security.”

Humans Country Social Rights Groups Security Remains Strategy Human Rights Inequality Promotion Eliminating Social Groups

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“I will say that going to these meetings and things, you know, I thought that, you know, be in a room with a bunch of drunk people. Ugh! I can't do that. And the truth is, it is the cheapest therapy that you could ever get. You're in a group of people that are from all walks of life, you know. Some guy that's got, you know, construction stuff on and dust still on, to a person that's the CEO of a company. And it's a common - it's a common abyss that you shared.”

People Knows Persons Stills I Can Guy Stuff Walks Rooms Common Company Groups Truth Is Meetings Bunch Drunk Dust Therapy Construction Ceo Abyss Walks Of Life Ugh Drunk People

Author:Lynda Carter

“In ascending order the qualities of Patriotism are: 1. To work, fight, or die for your own survival. 2. To work, fight, or die for your immediate family. 3. To work, fight, or die for a group, extended family, tribe, or clan. 4. To work, fight, or die for a group too large for all the individuals to know each other. 5. To work, fight, or die for a way of life.”

Knows Way Order Dies Fighting Individual Quality Groups Survival Tribes Clans Extended Family Ascending Immediate Family

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“We will work as a group, we need to be a real team, that is the only way to go far”

Way Needs Real Groups Team

Author:Francesco Totti

“Every other group helps its own members. Women should, too. Be sisters.”

Should Helping Groups Members

Book:No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power

Source: No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power

“We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.”

Able Community White Groups Organization Males Terrorist Suspicious Intelligence Community Terrorist Groups

Author:Jane Harman

“There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.”

Causes Rights Groups Roots Oppression Womens Rights Root Cause

Author:Anne Nicol Gaylor

“[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression.”

Long Self Running Together Interest Groups Sticks Oppression Accomplished Long Runs Oppressed Self Interest Alliances

Author:Shulamith Firestone

“Any denomination or church group that forsakes inerrancy will end up shipwrecked. It is impossible to prevent the surrender of other important doctrinal teachings of the Word of God when inerrancy is gone.”

Important Ends Church Gone Impossible Groups Teaching Surrender Word Of God Forsake Denominations

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American grain. Nevertheless, the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington. Their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments.”

“No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U.S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.”

Thinking World Country Today President Can Do Situation Growing Groups Dangerous Periods Currents Command Developing Disarray

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“If you are a minority or an interest group, the Democrats will hold the debate at your house. Whereas Republicans take a slightly different approach: they have a big tent - you're just not allowed in it.”

Ifs Different Bigs House Interest Groups Republican Approach Democrat Debate Minorities Tents Interest Groups Different Approach

Author:Jon Stewart

“In the whole history of capitalism, no one has been able to establish a coercive monopoly by means of competition in a free market...Every single coercive monopoly that exists or ever has existed...was created and made possible only by an act of government...which granted special privileges (not obtainable in a free market) to a man or a group of men, and forbade all others to enter that particular field.”

Men Mean Has Beens Made Whole Government Able Groups Special Fields Particular Capitalism Competition Privilege Granted Free Market Monopoly

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“The groups of which we are a part impact our decisions and our decisions shape the future.”

Decision Groups Shapes Impact

Author:Mal Fletcher

“My own preference is for mixed (beds) where there are ...groups of larger shrubs on corners and elsewhere to give shape to the views and to create surprises.”

Giving My Own Views Groups Shapes Bed Surprise Corners Elsewhere Preference Shrubs

Book:The art of planting, or, The planter's handbook

Source: The art of planting, or, The planter's handbook

“It is a simple matter to plant trees in straight lines, but informal groupings will test the sensitivities of the most experienced planter and the smaller the groups the more difficult they are to place.”

Matter Difficult Lines Simple Groups Tree Tests Plant Sensitivity Straight Lines Plant A Tree Planters

Book:Great gardens of Britain

Source: Great gardens of Britain

“If God does exist, it's in music and in art, I think there's more spiritually in what I do than in a lot of religious groups judging, especially in the way they've treated me in the past couple of years. I've grown tired of talking about religion. It's time for me to move on. I'm trying to redefine the idea of spirituality and make it now such a bad word for myself, because I find that I sound really stupid saying it sometimes”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Years Doe Art Ideas Sometimes Past Moving Spirituality Sound Religious Talking Groups Stupid Judging Couple Tired Treated Really Stupid Bad Word God Does Exist

Author:Marilyn Manson

“The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting is invariably a decaying town in a regional backwater where a catalytic stranger or returning native meets up with a group of sad, eccentric outsiders.”

Might Groups Hollywood Towns Independent Stranger Setting Settings Genre Cinema Native Outsiders Inaction Eccentric Genre Is

Author:Philip French

“If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.”

Ifs Men Ideas Individual Left Moral Opinion Groups Judging Conflict Judgment Absolutes Finals Appeals Moral Judgment Conflicting Opinions

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“Every public elementary school ought to welcome Good News Clubs. Parents appreciate them; children love them; and the First Amendment protects them. The First Amendment requires that similar groups be provided with equal treatment. Religious speech is not a disability. It is our preeminent freedom.”

“When I place my hand on the Bible and take the oath of office, that oath becomes my highest promise to God. If I am fortunate to become your president, I will serve no one religion, no one group, no one cause, and no one interest. A President must serve only the common cause of the people of the United States.”

People Ifs States Hands Causes President Interest United Common United States Groups Promise Office Highest Fortunate Oath Oath Of Office

Author:Mitt Romney

“A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.”

Humanity Groups Brotherhood

Author:David Icke

“Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group.”

Political Force Groups Type Pressure Organized Political Systems Orbit Plunder Pressure Groups

Author:Leonard Read

“In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.”

People Thinking Knows Way Two Book Reading Term Break Clear Groups Paper Know Me Papers Breaking Down

Author:David Icke

“One of the most important secret societies of the 20th century is called the Round Table. It is based in Britain with branches across the world. It is the Round Table that ultimately orchestrates the network of the Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Royal Institute of International Affairs.”

“One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular economic and financial crisis in decades - possibly since the Great Depression - and the one group that spends most of its waking hours analyzing the economy basically missed it.”

Hours Economy Groups Economic Crisis Financial Decades Waking Economist Spectacular Intriguing Great Depression Analyzing Financial Crisis Economic Crisis Subplots

Author:Robert J. Samuelson

“The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit.”

People Persons Ideas Economy Groups Congress Manage Height Arrogance Conceit

Author:Walter E. Williams

“No segment of the population has lost more by the agendas of the liberal constituencies of the Democratic Party than the black population. The teachers' unions, environmental fanatics and the ACLU are just some of the groups to whose interests blacks have been sacrificed wholesale. Lousy education and high crime rates in the ghettos, and unaffordable housing elsewhere with building restrictions, are devastating prices to pay for liberalism.”

“ACORN, you may recall, is the left-wing activist group with longtime ties to community organizer-turned-President Barack Obama. The nonprofit, which now takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers after four decades on the public teat, has a history of engaging in voter fraud, corporate shakedowns, partisan bullying and pro-illegal immigration lobbying. The Democrats' stimulus proposals could make the group - and its lesser known but even more radical ideological allies - eligible for upward of $5 billion in new public cash.”

“The rules in this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party opposes it, it's 'politics' - as in headlines like this: 'Obama Urges GOP To Keep Politics To A Minimum On Stimulus.' These are serious times: As the president says, it's the worst economic crisis since the Thirties. So politicians need to put politics behind them and immediately lavish $4.19 billion on his community-organizing pals at the highly inventive 'voter registration' group ACORN for 'neighborhood stabilization activities.”

“A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to the common mold.”

People Age House Common Class Groups Television Waste Eating Performances Distance Income Inward Uniforms Multitudes Conform Mold Freezer

Author:Lewis Mumford

“These settlements [Justice Department with lenders] include requirements that banks lend to minorities at below-market rates and, in effect, dish out cash to politically favored 'community groups.' It's a good bet that many of these loans will eventually go bad.”

Community Justice Groups Effects Rate Department Minorities Cash Dishes Requirements Loan Settlement Lenders

Author:Mary Kissel

“Today, the law is a crazy quilt of provisions and clauses that very often have little to do with securing general happiness but instead are designed to secure the particular happiness of various advocacy groups, politicians and bureaucrats.”

Littles Today Law Groups Crazy Particular Politician Various Secure Provision Bureaucrats Advocacy Clauses Quilts

Author:Joel Miller

“When Obama's economic advisers - a greater group of schlemiels would be hard to find - warn that failure to raise the limit will trigger default and horrific consequences for the global economy, Republicans should reply that if this is so, tell it to your president and get him to approve the spending cuts along with the debt-limit increase.”

“Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.”

Doe Government Given Groups Resources No Money

Author:John Stossel

“I always maintain that playing in an orchestra intelligently is the best school for democracy. If you play a solo, the conductor and everybody in the orchestra follows you. Then, a few bars later, the main voice goes to another instrument, another group, and then you have to go back into the collective [sound]. The art of playing in an orchestra is being able to express yourself to the maximum but always in relation to something else that is going on.”

Ifs Art Play Able School Sound Voice Democracy Groups Relation Instruments Bars Collectives Solo Orchestra Maximum Express Yourself Conductor Best School

Author:Daniel Barenboim

“All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time”

Persons Long Important Democracy Too Much Groups Dangerous Propositions Small Groups Too Much Power

Author:Aldous Huxley

“If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.”

People Ifs Way Two Lying Violence Groups Threat Inferiors

Author:Gloria Steinem

“You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them.”

People Two Stories Player Groups Significant Plot Introducing

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat the other party. In Iran, where we have different religions and ethnic groups, it was a unifying factor.”

Want Different Country Sometimes Political Party Groups Beats Factors Iran Political Parties Monarchy Disadvantages Unifying Ethnic Groups Different Religions

Author:Farah Diba

“As my sons went into teenagehood, they started to look like some of the groups of people that I had photographed previously. They started to become like my old subjects. As if, as a photographer, you come around to the same visual points.”

People Ifs Looks Groups Subjects Son Photographer Visuals My Son

Author:Ari Marcopoulos

“There is a whole separate filmmaking team that's doing it, but that's part of what's great about the Brain Trust and about the inspiring leadership of John Lasseter. He leaves it up to that creative group of individuals to help each other elevate each thing that they're working on to only try to make it better and to share what you've learned on the first one.”

Trying Firsts Whole Helping Individual Brain Creative Groups Team Share Filmmaking Helping Each Other

Author:Klay Hall

“Historically speaking, religious and conservative groups always wanted the control over the private sphere that impacts women most, as reflected by family law and women's access to resources and mobility. And often secular groups traded this for economic incentives and trade.”

Wanted Law Religious Groups Economic Resources Trade Impact Conservative Access Spheres Secular Incentives Mobility Family Law

Author:Zainab Salbi

“I don't know what it was like in the '80s. I don't really even know what it was like in the '90s, because I was broke and wasn't selling any art. I was in a few group shows, but I didn't have a gallery until 2006.”

Knows Art Shows Groups Selling Broke 80s Gallery

Author:Wade Guyton

“I like that when you create you really do create with a very small group of people, and in that space, before it goes out to all these people, that's what I love.”

People Space Groups Small Groups

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“For those of us at Marvel Television, it always begins with the story. It's all about the script. It's making sure it's there, on the page. So, we needed to go to a group of individuals who have not only created some of the most memorable animated characters, like Ben 10 and Generator Rex, but also had done two seasons of our very successful Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man series, and that's the Man of Action guys. But, it wasn't just that.”

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