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“Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.”

Individual Race Generations Groups Formation

Author:J. Philippe Rushton

“My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.”

Believe Seems Mother Father House I Believe Memories Groups Arms Walking Garden Orchard Memory Of My Father

Author:Immanuel Velikovsky

“I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.”

Writing Groups Composer Chamber Small Groups

Author:David Del Tredici

“I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all.”

People Feels I Can Enough Helping Stories Inspiration Film Rich Seeing Groups Share Land Gratitude Waste Devil Thirds Live Life Awe Courageous Playgrounds Waste Land

Author:Lucy Walker

“I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes, who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral and psychological climate had so little in common that instead of going from Burlington Hom or South Kensington to Chelsea, one might have crossed an ocean.”

Littles Two Different Might Moving Science Social Felt Common Race Moral Groups Society Ocean Intellectual Scientist South Climate Communicate Income Psychological Earning Identical Chelsea

Author:C.P. Snow

“Today solemn exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is the grace and need of our time. Society will be restored and renewed when all its members group themselves around our Emmanuel.”

Needs Today Grace Groups Members Blessed Our Time Sacraments Solemn Blessed Sacrament Emmanuel

Author:Peter Julian Eymard

“Lawyers, before any other group, must continue to point out how the system is really working-how it actually affects real people. They must constantly demonstrate to courts and legislatures alike the tragic results of legal nonintervention. They must highlight how legal doctrines no longer bear any relation to reality, whether in landlord and tenant law, holder in due course law, or any other law. In sum, lawyers must bring real morality into the legal consciousness”

People Real Reality Law Courses Results Consciousness Groups Bears Morality Ethics Relation Court Dues Lawyer Doctrine Tragic Legislature Highlights Landlord Tenants Legal Ethics

Author:William J. Brennan

“In an improv group and a successful work team, the members play off one another, each person's contributions providing the spark for the next. Together, the improvisational team creates a novel emergent product, one that's more responsive to the changing environment.”

Persons Play Together Next Novel Successful Environment Groups Team Products Members Contribution Collaboration Sparks Providing Successful Work Changing Environment

Author:R. Keith Sawyer

“Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability of material goods for the benefit of certain social groups and makes people slaves of "possession" and immediate gratification, with no other horizon than the multiplication or continual replacement of the things already owned with others still better. This is the civilization of consumption, or "consumerism," which involves so much throwing away and waste.”

“Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the second that science is materialistic and irreligious.”

Firsts Persons Two Seems Today Science Certain Groups Errors Currents Impression Theology Materialistic Uninformed Religion Today

Author:Robert Andrews Millikan

“The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations-acting alone, acting in groups, acting in the United Nations, for plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology and education can be the ally of every nation.”

“The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of more than 2,500 scientists) has provided the world community with first class assessments of the soaring temperatures the world is facing, the devastating impacts of these rises and the ways in which we can try and avoid the worst effects of global warming. We now know climate change is real and the hand of humankind in this warming is becoming clearer and clearer.”

Knows World Way Trying Firsts Real Hands Community Class Groups Worst Effects Becoming Scientist Impact Climate Climate Change Global Warming Humankind Soar Temperature Assessment First Class

Author:Klaus Topfer

“You just realize that you have to be committed to this thing in this kind of world that we're in the more your support group dwindles and you start seeing your peers buying houses and getting corporate jobs. So that can be discouraging.”

World Kind Jobs House Realizing Support Seeing Groups Committed Corporate Buying Peers Discouraging Support Groups Buying A House

Author:J. Robbins

“I think our nation's at war with radical Islam. The primary goal of these groups is to attack our nation. Washington's a prime target.”

Thinking War Nations Goal Groups Islam Radical Primaries Target Prime Radical Islam

Author:Lindsey Graham

“I've been a military lawyer for 33 years. A member of al Qaeda or their affiliate group can be detained under a law of war as long as their threat to our nation without a trial.”

Years Long War Law Nations Groups Military Members Threat Lawyer Trials Als Al Qaeda

Author:Lindsey Graham

“The American economy is driven by small business. And there's nothing basically to create incentives for small businesses. We've done no tax reform. They're the highest-taxed group in the country. And corporations can go anywhere they want and do whatever they want. Small businesses have to stay.”

Want Country Done Economy Groups Taxes Highest Driven Reform Corporations Small Business Incentives American Economy Tax Reform

Author:Ed Rollins

“My neighborhood was a great neighborhood; it was filled with all sorts of ethnic groups and things. So I grew up thinking I was a human being.”

Thinking Humans Human Beings Groups Grew Grew Up Filled Neighborhood Ethnic Groups

Author:Chita Rivera

“I believe that people of my income group should pay more, and I explained why, but that won't necessarily lift overall wage levels.”

People Should Believe I Believe Levels Pay Groups Income Lifts

Author:William J. Clinton

“There are so many groups making so much money in the medical care system that any major reorganization is going to make someone unhappy or anxious at the least, ... I don't know how you do it.”

Knows Care Know How Groups Majors Medical Unhappy Unhappiness Anxious Medical Care Reorganization

Author:Tony Robbins

“A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.”

Men Looks Groups Clothes Evening Crow Flocks

Book:Mark Twain's Speeches

Source: Mark Twain's Speeches

“It is a well- known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain.”

Wells Facts Form Brain Known Taken Groups Fine Well Known Consumed Tablets Large Groups Pez

Author:Dave Barry

“There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'.”

Together Groups Childhood Time Together

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.”

Self Evil Individual Common Groups Mankind Lows Primaries Identification Common Denominator Transcending Aggressiveness

Author:Arthur Koestler

“The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.”

Individual Groups Society Transformed Killers Identifying

Book:Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories

Source: Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories

“The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.”

Social Groups Society Normal Adults Conception Ridicule Departure Juvenile Social Groups

Book:The Act of Creation

Source: The Act of Creation

“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.”

“All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.”

Firsts Two Chance Practice Groups Fans Baseball Categories Divided Batting Baseball Fans Batting Practice

Book:How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game

Source: How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game

“In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.”

Way Doe Artist Culture Social Groups Building Creator Building Up Social Groups

Author:Andre Malraux

“But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.”

Ifs World Mind Play Whole Individual Magic Groups Objects This World Tricks Impression Observation Colour Scope Chamber Texture Impressionism

Author:Walter Pater

“Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.”

Doe Has Beens Whole Happens Would Be Loses Loss Economy Groups Possibility Particular Higher Gains Acceptable Fixing Transactions Gains And Losses

Author:Thomas Sowell

“It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire group.”

Ideas Whole Would Be Numbers Groups Effects Series Exhibits Bad Ideas Exhibitions Small Numbers

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group.”

People Way Country Problem Christian Jesus Christ Forget Responsibility Groups Jesus Christ Blame Jew Artificial Avoiding Anti Semitism

Author:Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.”

Ifs Men Humans Hands Form Winning Left Differences Brain Cutting Groups Victory Taste Creatures Members Essentials Fingers Defeat Various Bones Damage Left Hand Mutilation

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“I insist on group singing of the names of the Lord.”

Names Lord Groups Singing

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the answer to the following question: Have they so wrought that it will be impossible henceforth, for those who follow, ever again to act as if they had not existed?”

Ifs May Artist Answers Impossible Groups Achievement Importance Following

Book:Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art

Source: Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art

“I did a series of classes in psychology (at the institute), .. The students that came to that class had children. And over a period of a few years, they decided they wanted a nursery school, a play group (to watch over their children while they were studying). So in one of the garages that was near where we were having the classes, we established a play group area and the students volunteered to supervise. That eventually led to building a state-licensed nursery school, which was approved by the California department of social welfare.”

“The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring together Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, and work out a solution for self-governance that would give all three groups a share in political power. Simultaneously, the UN should arrange for shipments of food and medicine, from the United States and other countries, as well as engineers to help rebuild the country.”

“Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.”

Passion House Interest Loss Groups Cards Ruins Temples Empires Gambling Squares Indifferent Infant Spectators Ivory

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“We go in with eyes wide open and recognize there will be a lot of hard work involved. But we anticipate having success. We feel like we have assembled a great group of people. If we were going to do it any other way, we would have made an announcement a long time ago. We were very diligent.”

People Ifs Way Feels Long Made Hard Eye Groups Hard Work Involved Long Time Wide Long Time Ago Anticipate Diligence Diligent Announcements Eyes Wide Open

Author:Troy Aikman

“We must not forget; but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. It was Jewish groups in the US who were in the forefront in opposing the ethnic cleansing of Muslim in Bosnia.”

Suffering Community Forget Compassion Groups Forgiving Opposing Cleansing Ethnic Cleansing Bosnia Jewish Community

Author:George Soros

“Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.”

Men Way May Individual Community Freedom Cities Groups Oppression Village Small Groups Large Cities Small Villages

Author:Morris Raphael Cohen

“I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.”

Wells Whole Waiting Interest Interesting Groups Streets Relation Picturesque

Book:Childe Hassam: American impressionist

Source: Childe Hassam: American impressionist

“Today, only two groups in the United States have total immunity from lawsuits: foreign diplomats and HMOs. We believe it's time to end diplomatic immunity for HMOs. Holding them accountable is the only way to guarantee that you get the health care your family deserves.”

Way Believe Two Ends States Care Today United United States Groups Deserve Health Care Our Family Guarantees Diplomatic Guarantees That Diplomats Immunity Lawsuit

Author:Tom Harkin

“Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.”

People Self Individual Groups Building Empathy Tools Function Obsessed Allowing Self Obsessed

Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“Is there any fairness in a system where a group of people can borrow a bunch of money to buy a company and pay themselves millions of dollars in dividends and fees, while the company itself ends up bankrupt and its employees lose their jobs, health insurance and pensions?”

People Ends Jobs Loses Pay Company Millions Groups Dollars Bunch Employee Fairness Fees Pension Dividends

Author:William D. Cohan

“Is Christianity just another special-interest group, clawing for political power? Or, even if Christians are acting as God's spokesmen, must Christians always conduct themselves politically as if Christianity were just another special-interest group? Do Christians conduct evangelism this way?.”

Ifs Way Christian Political Interest Acting Christianity Groups Special Evangelism Political Power Special Interests Interest Groups Special Interest Groups

Book:Political polytheism: the myth of pluralism

Source: Political polytheism: the myth of pluralism

“Christians are supposed to love each other. Communists are supposed to share bonds with all proletarians and other communists. Every ideological group proclaims universality, and all of them bicker internally, never displaying unity except in the face of a common enemy. Humanism today is the common enemy of Christians.”

Today Christian Faces Common Christianity Enemy Groups Share Unity Humanism Communist Ideological Love Each Other Universality Common Enemy

Author:Gary North

“The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.”

Ideas Freedom Creative Groups Ultimate Experiments New Ideas Ultimate Freedom

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots and lots of small groups who like you a lot, they add up to a big group without ever actually becoming mainstream.”

Thinking Different Bigs Groups Like You Becoming Add Mainstream Cult Small Groups

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies and he needs many group members to be on his side.”

Needs Sides Support Groups Members Males Spots Broads Allies Alpha Male Chimpanzees Alphas

Author:Frans de Waal

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