“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.” GovernmentInterestGroupsPolicyPoliticianSucceedResourcesSmokeOrganizedInfluentialChannelingGeneral PublicInterest GroupsGovernment PolicyBlowing Smoke Author:Robert Higgs
“I think we've made the collection haystack so big, no one's ever getting through the haystack to find the needle. What we really need to do is isolate the haystack into a group of suspicious people and spend enormous resources looking at suspicious people, people who we have probable cause.” PeopleThinkingNeedsMadeBigsCausesGroupsResourcesEnormousCollectionsSuspiciousNeedlesNsaProbable Cause Author:Rand Paul
“Starting epidemics requires concentrating resources on a few key area. The Law of the Few says that Connectors, Mavens, and Salesman are responsible for starting word-of-mouth epidemics, which means that if you are interested in starting a word-of-mouth epidemic , your resources ought to be solely concentrated on these three groups. No one else matters.” IfsMeanMatterLawThreeGroupsKeysOughtMouthsResourcesAreasResponsibleStartingSalesmanEpidemicsConcentratingWord Of MouthConnectorsMavens Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them.” IfsHomePainParentPracticeSupportGrowing UpGrowingGroupsCoupleResourcesAgingVersionsTraditionalWorriedDiscussionIsolationGrandmotherEggsSatisfyingSaltProliferationChronic PainOutreachAging ParentsSupport GroupsCrepesTraditional Family Author:Florence King
“Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot--a sense of collective participation, experience with organizational roles, and group support in the enterprise of growing up. Groups also pose for the child some of the most acute problems of social life--of inclusion and exclusion, conformity and independence.” ChildrenProblemIndividualSocialRolesSupportGrowing UpGrowingGroupsResourcesIndependenceVarietyEnterpriseCollectivesBelongingConformityInclusionParticipationSocial LifeExclusionOrganizationalBelonging To A Group Author:Zick Rubin
“Get a millionaire mentor. Most of us were brought up middle class or poor and then hold ourselves to the limits and ideas of that group. I have been studying millionaires to duplicate what they did. Get your own personal millionaire mentor and study them. Most rich people are extremely generous with their knowledge and their resources.” PeopleHas BeensIdeasPoorClassStudyRichGroupsMiddleLimitsResourcesGenerousMiddle ClassMentorMillionaireRich PeopleDuplicate Author:Grant Cardone
“If humanity today succeeds in combining the new scientific capacities with a strong ethical dimension, it will certainly be able to promote the environment as a home and a resource for...all...and will be able to eliminate the causes of pollution and to guarantee adequate conditions of hygiene and health for small groups as well as for vast human settlements.” IfsHumansWellsHomeTodayAbleHumanityStrongCausesEnvironmentGroupsConditionsSucceedResourcesCapacityEnvironmentalDimensionsGuaranteesEthicalSustainabilityPollutionAdequateSettlementSmall GroupsCombiningHygiene Author:Pope John Paul II
“War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them. So much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.” PeopleWarFormPoorRichGroupsHappeningsCapitalismResourcesEssence Author:Bell Hooks
“I've used Twitter now and again to try to figure something out; it's an amazing resource. But I think you have to use it judiciously: it's a self-selected group, so it's important not to start thinking of it as the whole world.” ThinkingWorldTryingImportantSelfWholeUseUsedGroupsFiguresResourcesWhole WorldSelected Author:Susan Orlean
“You've got so many groups that have no voice in this world - the indigenous, the poor. So how can I use the resources that I have and bring them up, highlight them. And it's not that difficult. It's just choosing and concentrating and focusing.” WorldUseDifficultVoicePoorGroupsThis WorldResourcesIndigenousConcentratingHighlights Author:Anita Roddick
“Russia has the largest reserves of natural resources, including iron and natural gas. The market will develop in the long term, and the VW Group will benefit from it.” LongTermNaturalGroupsBenefitsResourcesIncludingRussiaLong TermGasIronReservesNatural ResourcesNatural Gas Author:Martin Winterkorn
“Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by.” FeelsBigsGovernmentInterestDoubtGroupsSpecialResourcesOrganizationCastsThreatenedSpecial InterestsMultinationalsDoubt And Fear Author:Arlo Guthrie
“The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world. Humanity cannot afford to waste its financial and emotional resources on endless, meaningless quarrels between each group and all others. there must be a sense of globalism in which the world unites to solve the real problems that face all groups alike.” WorldRealEndsProblemEarthFacesHumanityGroupsEmotionalPlanetsCivilizationRight NowWasteResourcesDestructionEnvironmentalFinancialSolveEndlessMeaninglessQuarrelsReal ProblemsGlobalismEnvironmental Problems Book:I, Asimov: A Memoir Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir
“Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as with the informational resources they can claim by age, education, station in life, and government guarantees of consumer protection.” DifferentCharacterGovernmentAgeGroupsResourcesClaimsProtectionAdvertisingVulnerableConsumersVulnerabilityGuaranteesStationsQuantityVaryAdvertisementsConsumer Protection Book:Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society Source: Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society
“Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.” DoeGovernmentGivenGroupsResourcesNo Money Author:John Stossel
“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.” WantedLawReligiousGroupsEconomicResourcesTradeImpactConservativeAccessSpheresSecularIncentivesMobilityFamily Law Author:Zainab Salbi