“There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C.” WayLittlesSidesRoomsKnownDoubtGroupsLandCreationCivilizationBridgesFourthEgyptBoth SidesMillennium Author:James Henry Breasted
“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.” WellsFactsFormBrainKnownTakenGroupsFineWell KnownConsumedTabletsLarge GroupsPez Author:Dave Barry
“I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.” ChristianChurchKnownGroupsTeachingDutyConsciousDecidedConsiderationPeterCommonwealthChristian Marriage Author:Princess Margaret
“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?” PeopleWarDoneLyingIndividualCommonKnownGroupsGoodnessGood ThingsPursuitEnterpriseAbandonGet BackAppetiteDiverseAltruismConsentMixturesRecreationParadoxicalLove And WarOutdoor Recreation Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“This week a group of activists, known as Anonymous, hacked the Twitter account of the KKK. The KKK is furious. They said Anonymous is just a bunch of cowards who don't have the courage to show their faces.” SaidShowsFacesKnownGroupsWeekAccountsBunchCowardActivistThey SaidFuriousHackedKkk Author:Conan O'Brien
“Behind the abstraction known as 'the markets' lurks a set of institutions designed to maximize the wealth and power of the most privileged group of people in the world, the creditor-rentier class of the First World and their junior partners in the Third.” PeopleWorldFirstsWealthBehindsKnownClassGroupsCapitalismThirdsInstitutionsPartnersPrivilegedAbstractionJuniorsCreditors Author:Doug Henwood
“A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen as 'the Zen cult'. The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'.” WellsKnownPracticeGroupsBuddhismMountainNewspapersGentlemanLos AngelesPhenomenonCultWell KnownRamaSmall Groups Author:Frederick Lenz
“Conservatives . . . may decide to join the game and seek activist judges with conservative views. Should that come to pass, those who have tempted the courts to political judging will have gained nothing for themselves but will have destroyed a great and essential institution. . . . There are only two sides. Either the Constitution and statutes are law, which means their principles are known and control judges, or they are malleable texts that judges may rewrite to see that particular groups or political causes win.” ShouldMayMeanTwoLawPoliticalGamesWinningCausesSidesViewsKnownPrinciplesGroupsParticularJudgingEssentialsConstitutionInstitutionsCourtConservativeDestroyedActivistTemptedTwo SidesStatutes Author:Robert Bork
“Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as “the dancing mushroom.” According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters met on a mountain trail, where they discovered a fruiting of maitake mushrooms emerging from the forest floor. Rejoicing at their discovery of this delicious mushroom, they danced to celebrate.” KnownGroupsMetsMountainDiscoveryDancingForestsCelebrateBuddhistJapanLegendsRejoiceDeliciousTrailsEmergingNunMushrooms Author:Paul Stamets
“It is generally not known in the world that, in the years preceding 1916, there was a concerted effort made to eliminate all the Armenian people, probably one of the greatest tragedies that ever befell any group. And there weren't any Nuremberg trials.” PeopleWorldYearsMadeEffortKnownGroupsTragedyTrialsGenocideArmeniansArmeniaArmenian GenocideNurembergNuremberg Trials Book:Jimmy Carter Source: Jimmy Carter
“The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.” PeopleKnowsFacesKnownGroupsDrawsFinalsPlotMarchPausesFace To FacePacificSettlement Author:Woodrow Wilson
“When I began doing theatre in high school I saw that I could get laughs from people but I didn't really connect that to going on and becoming a comedian. I was interested in acting and while I was at Boston College I was part of an improv group, Mother's Fleabag, which had a long history and has been known as one of the best college improvisation groups in the U.S.” PeopleLongHas BeensSchoolMotherActingKnownLaughingSawsGroupsCollegeBecomingHigh SchoolTheatreComedianBostonImprovisationBest College Author:Amy Poehler
“My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was a well-known Greek poet. This group of people were living in this semi-Luddite reality and weaving their own clothes - proto-hippies in a way- -but around an artistic vision.” PeopleWayWellsRealityLawMotherFatherLeftCommunityKnownVisionGroupsPoetClothesArtisticAlternativesGreekWell KnownHippieIn-lawsWeavingArtistic VisionFather In Law Author:Anne Waldman
“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.” PeopleFeelsMayI CanMightKnownGroupsJewBackgroundsSupercilious Author:James A. Michener
“I was very healthy from a young age. I was always known as the healthy kid in my group of friends. My mom had us drink barley-grass powder, and I've taken vitamins and fish oil and multivitamins since I was a kid. My mom just had me doing that for a long, long time. And I enjoy eating healthy. It's not a chore to me to eat healthy food.” LongKidsAgeYoungEnjoyKnownTakenGroupsMomDrinkHealthyEatingLong TimeFishesMy MomOilGrassYoung AgeVitaminsChoresPowderHealthy FoodEating HealthyGroup Of FriendsBarleyMultivitaminsHealthy Kids Author:Blake Griffin
“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.” MayLeftPresidentCommunityKnownFourGroupsPercentWingsDemocratDecadesBillionsImmigrationRadicalBarackCorporateTiesIllegalActivistVotersBullyingAlliesFraudCashRecallsEngagingRevenueProposalTaxpayersStimulusIdeologicalPartisansPresident Barack ObamaLeft WingIllegal ImmigrationOrganizerNonprofitsAcornsLobbyingVoter FraudLesser Known Author:Michelle Malkin
“When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would sing a few songs here and there between the playing. I sang things I had known over the years. I wasn't trying to give it any special treatment, just singing. I noticed thereafter people started requesting more singing, and it was just one of those things.” PeopleGivingTryingYearsFirstsSongKnownBreakGroupsSpecialKingsSingingSingersOrganizedJust OneTreatmentHere And ThereMonotonyTriosSpecial Treatment Author:Nat King Cole
“I think the Sierra Club is the environmental group that has the best chance of really accomplishing things. It's well known, and it actually gets down to doing the dirty work of protecting the environment.” ThinkingWellsChanceKnownEnvironmentGroupsEnvironmentalClubsDirtyWell KnownSierraDirty Work Author:Tom Scholz