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“I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.”

People Thinking Levels Groups Judging Reactions

“I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.”

Years Kids Groups Team Worst Swim Pool Inspirational Team Swim Team

“The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation increases the sense of oppression. Nor is the paradox merely in the mind: the laws enacted to secure the rights of every person and group, by creating protective boundaries, create new barriers.”

Feels Mind Persons Law Practice Rights Groups Creating Increase Boundaries Oppression Secure Liberation Impulse Barriers Paradox Restriction Protective

Author:Jacques Barzun

“In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted. But, after all, if there is nothing unreal, how, it may be asked, could we admit anything unreal? The reply is that, in dealing with propositions, we are dealing in the first instance with symbols, and if we attribute significance to groups of symbols which have no significance, we shall fall into the error of admitting unrealities, in the only sense in which this is possible, namely, as objects described.”

Ifs Firsts May Feelings Reality Fall Groups Objects Errors Instance Symbols Obedience Analysis Significance Attributes Propositions Unreal Admitting Unreality

Book:Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

Source: Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

“Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain who appears to possess the courage and sagacity necessary for the achievement of supremacy. Even in religion this impulse appears. Nietzsche accused Christianity of inculcating a slave-morality, but ultimate triumph was always the goal. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”

Men Feels Earth Goal Christianity Groups Victory Morality Achievement Ultimate Blessed Slave Triumph Impulse Captains Accused Competence Supremacy Meek Sagacity

Book:Power: A New Social Analysis

Source: Power: A New Social Analysis

“In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils. There is no hope for the world unless power can be tamed, and brought into the service, not of this or that group of fanatical tyrants, but of the whole human race, white and yellow and black, fascist and communist and democrat; for science has made it inevitable that all must live or all must die.”

Men World Humans Made Whole Dies Black White Race Groups Devil Democrat Made It Former Inevitable Human Race Acquire Communist Tyrants Yellow Compelled Fascists No Hope Tamed

Author:Bertrand Russell

“I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.”

“No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.”

Groups Members Stronger Enthusiasm Ties Mutual Farmers Sportsman

Book:For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings

Source: For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings

“Barring love and war, few enterprises are undertaken with such abandon, or by such diverse individuals, or with so paradoxical a mixture of appetite and altruism, as that group of avocations known as outdoor recreation. It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature. But wherein lies the goodness, and what can be done to encourage its pursuit?”

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.”

Political Social Groups Constitution Favors Social Groups

Author:William O. Douglas

“The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.”

Children Earth Night Poor Morning Rich Groups Streets Flower Grew Healthy Appearance Hungry Naked Dirty Dirt Nourishment Faded

Book:The Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK®: 61 Classic Novels and Stories

Source: The Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK®: 61 Classic Novels and Stories

“The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.”

America Social Groups Awareness Importance Property Surpassing Social Groups

Author:Johan Huizinga

“Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but Snohetta places a stronger emphasis on group participation in the design process than typical high-style firms.”

May Process Practice Groups Style Design Office Stronger Democratic Employment Atmosphere Firm Typical Participation Workplace Emphasis Scandinavia Design Process

Author:Martin Filler

“A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.”

Heart Littles Wise Groups Fool Wilderness

Book:The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic, and War

Source: The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic, and War

“Halloween is tomorrow. A group of wine experts has actually come up with a list of the best wines to pair with Halloween candy. They say, "White wine goes great with Skittles, red wine goes great with Twix, and ... we're alcoholics, aren't we?”

White Groups Tomorrow Red Wine Come Up Lists Experts Pairs Halloween Candy Alcoholics Red Wine Best Wine White Wine Skittles Halloween Candy

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff. Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.”

Source: The Forsyte Saga, Complete: England Literature

“Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover the bricks underneath. At times, it seems that we're dealing with a group of men who aren't much different than others we've all run into over the years, except they wear neckties instead of robes and hoods.”

Men Giving Years Different Seems Running Groups Fields Wall Baseball Appearance Covered Bricks Hood Robes Ivy Neckties Wrigley Field

Author:Hank Aaron

“It cannot be denied that Islam, regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity - by which expression I mean a social structure regulated by a legal system and animated by a specific ethical ideal - has been the chief formative factor in the life-history of the Muslims of India. It has furnished those basic emotions and loyalties which gradually unify scattered individuals and groups, and finally transform them into a well-defined people, possessing a moral consciousness of their own.”

Source: Speeches, Writings, and Statements of Iqbal

“There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.”

Mind Kind Class Struggle Groups Modern Type Hatred Creeds Modern Society Class Struggle

Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

“Cooperation and conflict are two sides of the same coin; both arise out of man's relationship with his fellows. The larger the group, the greater the possibility of development through cooperation, and the greater the possibility of conflict.”

Men Two Sides Greater Groups Possibility Development Conflict Fellows Arise Cooperation Coins Two Sides

Author:Julius Nyerere

“It saddens me that a historic event like this is being misconstrued by a small but vocal group of critics trying to spread the notion that the UN gathering is really the work of radicals and atheists bent on destroying our families.”

Trying Groups Events Critics Notion Atheist Scary Spread Radical Our Family Destroying Bent Gathering Historic Vocal Misconstrued

Author:Hillary Clinton

“All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?”

Kind Would Be Care Nations Race Cities Groups Mankind Capable Spring Ideals Belonging

Author:Louis Dudek

“Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques--actually defensive bastions against community.”

Different Community Poor Race Enemy Groups Sinner Divorced Nationality Clique Doubters Different Races Exclusivity

Book:The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace

Source: The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace

“Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.”

Together Individual Community Groups Conditions Commitment Delight Communicate Deeper Honestly Significant Mask Rejoice Mourn Composure

Book:The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace

Source: The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace

“Inside of all of us we have these patterns where we eventually become at least ethnocentric. We care about our group, our mom, our dad, our family, our religion. And some people, eventually, evolve beyond that until they're more human-centric or even spirit-centric where they care about everything.”

People Humans Care Spirit Groups Mom Dad Patterns Evolve Our Family

Author:Tony Robbins

“It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration.”

“Unlike a child in a totally urban environment, my friends and peer group were not only other children, but also wild and domesticated animals, plants of every sort, brooks and waterfalls, rocks and sand.”

Children Animal Environment Groups Rocks My Friends Plant Sand Urban Peers Brooks Waterfalls Peer Group Domesticated Animals Urban Environment

Author:Freeman Patterson

“Creativity takes a hit when people in a work group compete instead of collaborate.”

People Creativity Groups Collaboration

Author:Teresa Amabile

“Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups. Various policy dilemmas, such as the question whether it is better for government to rebut conspiracy theories or to ignore them, are explored in this light.”

Light Government Suffering Groups Policy Theory Response Various Rational Conspiracy Dilemma Extremist Cognitive Epistemology Conspiracy Theory Crippled Infiltration Extremist Groups

Author:Cass Sunstein

“Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.”

Ifs Should Certain Groups Jokes Candidates Minorities Sense Of Humor Offended Cautious Minority Groups

Author:Jack Germond

“I've owned a business for 26 years. My family isn't in politics and my supporters aren't special interest groups in Madison and Milwaukee.”

Years Interest Groups Special My Family Supporter Special Interests Madison Interest Groups Milwaukee Special Interest Groups

Author:Mark Neumann

“We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.”

May Social Attitude Groups Modern Revolution Normal Atheist Arguing Discourse Homosexual

Author:Philip Warren Anderson

“I was always told that I was too strange or that I was too cheesy by different groups of people, like the record companies said I was way too weird and the indie people wouldn't even let me in their band.”

People Way Said Different Company Records Groups Strange Band Let Me Cheesy Record Companies

Author:Mika

“Ready? No one is ever ready, my boy. But some do what they plan to do and some never will. The difference between the two is that the first group understand that they need to start somewhere, so they do so. Straight away”

Needs Firsts Two Differences Boys Plans Groups Ready My Boys

Author:Chris Murray

“I am in total opposition to any institutional power. I favor a world of neighborhoods in which all social organization is voluntary and the ways of life are established in small, consenting groups. These groups could cooperate with other groups as they saw fit. But all cooperation would be on a voluntary basis. As the French anarchist Proudhon said. “Liberty [is] not the daughter but the Mother of Order.”

World Way Said Would Be Mother Order Social Liberty Saws Groups Fit Daughter Organization Bases Favors Opposition Neighborhood Cooperation Anarchist Social Organization

Author:Karl Hess

“ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being.”

Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

“Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is ... death! Or the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement.The choice lies with you!”

“Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.”

Ends Enough Use Common Groups Concepts Species Sensations Definite Recurring

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.”

Needs Values Given Social Quality Groups Depends Habit Members Aim Social Life Socialization

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“In order to have a large number of values in common, all the members of the group must have an equable opportunity, to receive and to take from others. There must be a large variety of shared undertakings and experiences. Otherwise, the influences which educate some into masters, educates others into slaves.”

Values Order Opportunity Common Numbers Groups Influence Masters Members Slave Variety Educate Undertakings Large Numbers

Author:John Dewey

“The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an "individual," existing apart from his group.”

Might Individual Responsibility Groups Identity Members Independence Formulas Individualism Primitive Sovereignty Individual Rights Clans

Book:Sane Society Ils 252

Source: Sane Society Ils 252

“The cities of Italy are now deluged with droves of these creatures [tour groups], for they never separate, and you see them, forty in number, pouring along a street with their director - now in front, now at the rear, circling them like a sheep dog - and really the process is as like herding as may be.”

May Process Numbers Cities Groups Streets Dog Fronts Directors Creatures Forty Sheep Pouring

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems passed beyond recall, are fixed on the printed page in a hundred tongues. They carry to a million eyes what once could reach but a hundred ears.”

Eye Sound Millions Groups Pages Hundred Ears Tongue Fixed Fascinated Recalls Bores Verses Printed Fading Deathless Bards

Book:Philosophy

Source: Philosophy

“Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower; Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride, Group'd their dark hues with every stain The weather-beaten crags retain.”

Found Sides Dark Groups Air Flower Pride Punishment Weather Pale Beaten Foxes Violet Cliffs Gloves Stains Hue Emblems Hawthorne

Book:The Poetical Works: Lady of the lake

Source: The Poetical Works: Lady of the lake

“During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before.”

People Ifs Years Made Done Enough Home Asks Groups Originals Climate Suits Fifteen Elephants Begging Had Enough Fifteen Years Stingy Carthage

Book:The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody

Source: The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody

“A glad welcome to this affirmation by a group of psychologists that the self does not stop at the skin nor even with the circle of human relationships but is interwoven with the lives of trees and animals and soil; that caring for the deepest needs of persons and caring for our threatened planet are not in conflict.”

Needs Humans Persons Doe Self Animal Groups Tree Planets Conflict Skins Caring Circles Glad Welcome Soil Threatened Affirmation Psychologist Human Relations Human Relationships

Author:Mary Catherine Bateson

“Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.”

Song Groups Musical Halls Satisfying

Author:Ben Gibbard

“Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.”

Ifs Political Challenges Study Failing Groups Amount Intellectual Structure Collectives

Book:Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

“Facilitative attitudes (and skills) can help a therapist gain entry into the group Freedom from a desire to control the outcome, and respect for the capacity of the group, and skills in releasing individual expression Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem Acceptance of the problems experienced by the group where they are clearly defined as issues Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future”

“Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in a world of their own, speak a specialized language and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothing in common with a group of people who often dress strangely, speak a specialized language, live in ... er.”

People World Faces Speak Language Common Magic Groups Scientist Dresses Statements Common Sense Magician Breach

Author:Terry Pratchett

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