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“For many of these people the social is just a mirror of themselves. I'm not against the social, but I want something genuinely social, not something that has been fetishized as social so that a group of people can feel better about themselves.”

People Want Feels Has Beens Social Groups Mirrors Feel Better Want Something

Author:Andrew Keen

“Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and say, “Oh, let’s just free the slaves.” ... Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people — usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time — had a better idea and articulated another way. That’s simply how evolution works; it’s the mutation — the member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they’re better adapted for survival.”

“Even as a child, I just leaned towards the scary. I remember seeing Halloween, for the first time. I snuck into the theater and was sitting there with a group of friends in the front row, and I turned back to look at the audience. They were screaming and interacting with the screen and were interacting with Jamie Lee Curtis as she walked through that horrible night. I just thought, "I want to do that."”

Want Firsts Looks Children Remember Night Audience Seeing Groups Fronts Sitting First Time Theater Scary Screens Horrible Halloween Interacting Jamie Group Of Friends

Author:Kevin D. Williamson

“I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow-dried candidate or governor.”

People Emotion Focus Groups Blow Candidates Governors Tested Focus Groups

Author:Chris Christie

“I don't think about age groups when I write, although I think if I know I'm writing for Children I'll be a bit more ambitious, and think more about every word, because I know that they pay closer attention when they read than adults do.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Children Age Bits Pay Attention Groups Adults Ambitious

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I do not think he [Reagan] put names and faces together but for a small group of people. There were a few, perhaps half a dozen reporters, that Reagan recognized, including my colleague Lou Cannon, and some from television and the wire services. The rest of us were faces.”

People Thinking Together Faces Names Half Groups Television Including Dozen Reporters Colleagues Wire Small Groups Cannons

Author:David E. Hoffman

“We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.”

Should Looks Names Individual Groups Victim Terrorism Location

Author:Narendra Modi

“[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties.”

Should Kind Party Principles Democracy Groups Majority All Kinds Devices Representation Parliament Proportional Representation

Author:David Lloyd George

“When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.”

People Can Do Imagine Groups Computer Program Incredibles Joining

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.”

Mind Humans Given Understanding Interesting Consciousness Study Groups Drug Approach Research Substance Human Mind Abandoned Given Up Psychedelic

Author:Stanislav Grof

“Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.”

World Needs Different Social Religious Space Common Existence Groups Conflict Agree Significant Contribution Canada Governance Harmonious Dissension Social Groups Agree Upon

Author:Aga Khan IV

“Today, we will hear from federal law enforcement agencies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, who will discuss the problem of ELF and ALF and law enforcement's reaction to their dangerous and destructive tactics. It is these tactics, particularly the widespread use of arson, which makes ELF and ALF the #1 domestic terror concern over the likes of white supremacists, militias, and anti-abortion groups.”

“From now on, in any place, if any nation or any group confronts the Zionist regime, we will endorse and we will help. We have no fear expressing this... The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor that must be removed, and God willing it will be.”

Ifs Helping Nations Groups Willing Gods Will Regimes No Fear Zionist Have No Fear Tumors

Author:Ali Khamenei

“I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity.) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows.”

“When I left Nashville I went to Texas because that's where I came from, and because I was playing in Texas a lot in different places. And I saw hippies and rednecks drinking beer together and smoking dope together and having a good time together and I knew it was possible to get all groups of people together - long hair, short hair, no hair - and music would bring them together.”

“Iran, as we have already discussed, has carried out very, very harmful activities inside Iraq. Funding, trainings, arming and, in some cases, even directing the activities of the special groups associated with the Jaish al-Mahdi and the Sadr Militia.”

Cases Groups Special Activity Training Iraq Iran Als Funding Militia Mahdi

Book:The status of the war and political developments in Iraq: joint hearing before the Committee on Armed Services meeting jointly with Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, hearing held, September 10, 2007

Source: The status of the war and political developments in Iraq: joint hearing before the Committee on Armed Services meeting jointly with Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, hearing held, September 10, 2007

“The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.”

Persons Individual Social Groups Behavior Concerned Unpredictable Being Free Social Science

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.”

Groups Members Outsiders

Author:Carroll Quigley

“This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living.”

Humans Able Wealth Simple Study Groups Influence Huge Amount Activity Concerned Labor Direct Enormous Income Command Civilized Peasants Priesthood Surplus Periodicity

Author:Carroll Quigley

“If in heroic conduct, whether of warriors, philosophers or scientists, we see what is of essential nature, then we know that all heroism groups itself around a supreme value. This has always been the idea of honour, spiritual and mental. But the idea of honour, like its corporeal representatives, was involved in a war of soul and spirit against the values represented by alien races or the offspring of racial chaos.”

Ifs Knows Ideas War Soul Spiritual Spirit Values Race Groups Involved Essentials Scientist Chaos Philosopher Supreme Warrior Aliens Honour Heroic Heroism Representatives Offspring

Author:Alfred Rosenberg

“The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual and his rights as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power.”

“Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.”

Sometimes Individual Groups Claims Hardest Sovereignty Family Life

Author:L. Neil Smith

“Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive for government to deprive people of their unalienable, individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to make an utter mess of their own lives. Since human beings are inclined to learn more from the mistakes they make, rather than from their triumphs, the right to fail, for individuals and groups alike, may be even more important than the right to succeed, and it must be fiercely protected at almost any cost.”

People Ifs Humans May Important Government Individual Human Beings Mistake Failing Groups Cost Drug Succeed Mess Triumph Destructive Protected

Author:L. Neil Smith

“Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use. That our moms wanted to use.”

People Use Wanted Focus Groups Products Mom Features Clients

Author:Jamie Zawinski

“One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.”

Made Enough School Groups Degrees News High School Software Programmers Nightclubs Stock Options

Author:Peter Norvig

“Our sense of identity is in large measure conferred on us by others in the ways they treat or mistreat us, recognize or ignore us, praise us or punish us. Some people make us timid and shy; others elicit our sex appeal and dominance. In some groups we are made leaders, while in others we are reduced to being followers. We come to live up to or down to the expectations others have of us.”

People Way Made Sex Leader Groups Identity Expectations Treats Praise Appeals Shy Followers Dominance Sex Appeal Mistreat

Book:The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil

Source: The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil

“History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon the label (its iconography, its target-group of customers) and upon the interesting problems of manufacturing bottle-glass. The contents, on the other hand, are tasted in a knowing, perfunctory way and then spat out again. Only amateurs swallow them.”

“One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control--to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic. The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient's control over every interaction.”

Thinking Feels Reason Might Loses Powerful Groups Limits Patient Therapy Collectives Allowing Interaction Reluctant Therapists Coerce

Book:Inpatient Group Psychotherapy

Source: Inpatient Group Psychotherapy

“To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience. Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.”

Would Be Strong Difficult Groups Offers Evidence Program Mental Health Profession Therapy Sentiments Units Prevailing Small Groups Efficacy Adequacy Group Therapy

Book:Inpatient Group Psychotherapy

Source: Inpatient Group Psychotherapy

“Regardless of the extent to which the media promote "politically correct," but scientifically wrong, resolutions from professional societies such as the American Anthropological Association, facts remain facts and require appropriate scientific, not political or ideological, explanation. None of this should be construed as meaning that environmental factors play no part in individual and group differences. But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these differences becomes more firmly established than ever.”

“The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.”

Want Water Groups Mad Fishes Islands Kenya Uganda Ethnic Groups

Author:Yoweri Museveni

“The Democratic Party might be called the Takings Coalition, made up of groups that want the government to take from American citizens -- usually cash -- and keep it for itself.”

Want Made Government Might Party Groups Citizens Democratic Cash Democratic Party Coalitions American Citizens

Author:Grover Norquist

“You know all the surveys say that evangelicals have the best sex life of any other group.”

Knows Sex Groups Surveys

Author:Ted Haggard

“Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with the hard work of not-for-profit lobbyists, environmental lawyers, green economists, sustainability-minded engineers, and forward-thinking entrepreneurs, it's going to take the inspired political involvement of millions of Americans to get our country on track to solving this problem.”

“The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.”

Interest Groups Method Tyrants Coerce

Book:In Defence of Politics

Source: In Defence of Politics

“One difference between libertarianism and socialism is that a socialist society can't tolerate groups of people practicing freedom, but a libertarian society can comfortably allow people to choose voluntary socialism. If a group of people - even a very large group - wanted to purchase land and own it in common, they would be free to do so. The libertarian legal order would require only that no one be coerced into joining or giving up his property.”

People Ifs Giving Would Be Wanted Order Differences Common Groups Land Giving Up Property Libertarian Socialism Libertarianism Tolerate Socialist Joining Large Groups

Author:David Boaz

“An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation with the right of secession. The individual or the family or the small group as a unit instead of the State.”

Needs States Individual Groups Behave Cooperation Cop Units Anarchism Anarchist Small Groups Secession

Book:The Book of Ammon

Source: The Book of Ammon

“We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.”

Ifs Talking Teach Teacher Groups Students Relate Friendly Retirement Competent

Author:William Glasser

“For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become the oldest in most groups of scientists.”

Years Realizing Groups Scientist Mathematical Melancholy

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.”

Want Should Able Hours Interesting Half Teacher Groups Subjects Students Perspective Conversation Profession Friendly Interesting Conversation

Author:William Glasser

“When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina setting which influences it, it is part of a totality that I cannot suppress. The impression you produce upon me is not thesame if I catchsight of youalone ina gardenor if Isee you in the midst of a group of other people, in a living room or on the street.”

People Ifs Body Lines Rooms Groups Influence Streets Produce Limits Impression Setting Settings Midst Portraits Living Room Totality

Author:Medardo Rosso

“The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.”

Needs Individual Struggle Groups Conflict Unique Adolescence Dominant

Book:Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman

Source: Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman

“Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.”

Self Artist Forget Audience Groups Feet Taught Recognition Classroom Outsiders Admirer Avid Self Taught

Author:Scott Kahn

“Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality.”

Different Faces Groups Authenticity Painter Abstract Demon Originality Monopoly

Author:Steven Whitney

“But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement into one whole, scattered and disjointed one from another, so as to appear to be in doubt and uncertainty, while they are in reality firm and steadfast, it will be of advantage, Venerable Brethren, to bring their teachings together here into one group, and to point out the connexion between them, and thus to pass to an examination of the sources of the errors, and to prescribe remedies for averting the evil.”

“But politicians who talk about failed policies are just blowing smoke. Government policies succeed in doing exactly what they are supposed to do: channeling resources bilked from the general public to politically organized and influential interests groups.”

Government Interest Groups Policy Politician Succeed Resources Smoke Organized Influential Channeling General Public Interest Groups Government Policy Blowing Smoke

Author:Robert Higgs

“Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.”

May Belief Justice Groups Internet Circumstances Privacy Association Free Speech Indispensable Dissidents

Author:John Marshall Harlan II

“I think that women as a group are so powerful. I still don't think we are able to embrace our power well enough yet. We think we live in a man's world and we have to follow their rules, and yet, we're so different, and our rules are so different. I wish that we could come together more as a political force. If women ran the world, I don't believe that there would be war. I really don't.... We understand the bigger picture. We understand our impact on the environment, on the world. We understand the generations that will go after us because we gave birth to them.”

“If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote? They have their own 'gods and idols' and we have nothing in common. ... If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.”

People Ifs Want Should Trying Mean Language Interest Common Accepting Audience Groups Please Taste Sake Aliens Neglect Idols Should I No Respect

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“I think it's an aggregation of all of the small acts that are really transformative. I think a group of small acts transform the individual. And maybe when the individual transforms, collectively we transform.”

Thinking Individual Groups Small Acts

Author:Chris Abani