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“The world was divided into two groups: those who showered at night, and those who showered in the morning.”

Source: Mr Perfect

“It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.”

“I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.”

Thinking World Believe I Believe Groups Danger Becoming Members Species Communicate Splits

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans. My father's father was particularly bitter about this. He would not accept an invitation to a 'Negro' picnic. He would not segregate himself in any way.”

“In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of jihad.”

World Government Names Accepting Principles Groups Streets Terrorist Village Jihad Terrorist Groups

Author:Walid Muallem

“In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure... Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all mens happiness.”

“People in the political world have every incentive to say things that lead voters away from a clear economic understanding of issues. What has happened more and more is that organized groups have more and more reasons to say things that don't make any economic sense.”

People World Reason Political Understanding Issues Clear Happened Groups Economic Organized Voters Incentives

Author:Thomas Sowell

“It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.”

Thinking World Ideas Challenges Groups Development New Ideas World Bank Multilateralism

Author:Robert Zoellick

“Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy, group privileges, or anointed 'holy' leaders. Atheists don't believe in a transcendent world or supernatural afterlife. Most important, there is no orthodoxy in atheism.”

“I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.”

World Groups Rocks Type Band Jazz Heavy Take Me Metals Punk Music Love Punk Rock Rock Bands Heavy Metal World Music Metal Band

Author:Reggie Watts

“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.”

People World Years Made Effort Known Groups Tragedy Trials Genocide Armenians Armenia Armenian Genocide Nuremberg Nuremberg Trials

Book:Jimmy Carter

Source: Jimmy Carter

“For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule.”

Source: Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit

“The world is in such a mess because of the continuous conflict that arises between human beings - not only between individuals but between tribes and nations and this group and that group and so on. But change can come in only when people start with themselves.”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

“In the pop world, instead of saying I want to get an album by such and such a group, it's I like this particular tune and that one I like less. I think it's much better to get involved with an artist instead of riding up and down the works you like and disregard the works you don't like.”

Thinking World Want Artist Groups Particular Involved Albums Pops Tunes Riding Up And Down Get Involved Disregard

Author:Steve Reich

“Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.”

Thinking Knows World Animal Groups Bird Kingdoms Mysterious Animal Kingdom

Author:David Attenborough

“As a mode of perception that often becomes a style of life, paranoia weaves around the vulnerable self or group an air-tight metaphysic and world view. Paranoia is an antireligious mysticism based on the feeling or perception that the world in general, and others in particular, are against me or us. Reality is perceived as hostile. By contrast, the religious mystic experiences the ground of being as basically friendly to the deepest needs of the self. That which is unknown, strange, or beyond our comprehension is with and for rather than against us.”

World Needs Self Feelings Reality Religious Views Groups Air Style Particular Strange Perception Vulnerable Friendly Mysticism Contrast Hostile Comprehension Mystic Paranoia World View

Author:Sam Keen

“Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points.”

World Science Groups Mathematics Fixed

Author:David Mumford

“The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.”

Men World Poetry Speak Realizing Heard Groups Poet Instinct Myth Revolutionary New World Peril Speaks Out

Author:Babette Deutsch

“I just had a son and had to take him to the paediatrician and he measured his head and apparently he's in a group in which only 14 per cent of the population have a bigger head than him. Then she said: "Do you mind if I measure your head?" I said: "Go ahead." And she was shocked, because less than one per cent of the world's population has a bigger head than mine. So I guess that means I'm pretty full of myself. Or that I have a huge brain.”

Ifs World Mind Mean Said Brain Groups Mines Son Huge Bigger Population Cents Shocked

Author:Jack Black

“The United States has faced threats from criminal groups, from terrorists, from spies throughout our history, and we have limited our responses. We haven't resorted to total war every time we have a conflict around the world, because that restraint is what defines us. That restraint is what gives us the moral standing to lead the world.”

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Author:Edward Snowden

“The die is cast in Canada: there are two ethnic and linguistic groups; each is too strong and too deeply rooted in the past, too firmly bound to a mother culture, to be able to swamp the other. But if the two will collaborate inside of a truly pluralist state, Canada could become a privileged place where the federalist form of government, which is the government of tomorrow's world, will be perfected.”

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Author:Pierre Trudeau

“In spite of my conviction that a group of deliberately assembled relatives can be one of the dullest, if not most dangerous, gatherings in the world, I am smugly foolhardly enough to have invited all my available family, more than once, to dine with me.”

Ifs World Enough Groups Dangerous Conviction Available Spite Invited Gathering Dine

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the emotional focus of the child's life. Early peer relationships contribute significantly to the child's ability to participate in a group (and in that sense, society), deal with competition and disappointment, enjoy the intimacy of friendships, and intuitively understand social relationships as they play out at school, in the neighborhood, and later in the workplace and adult family.”

“First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group.”

World Firsts Political Turns Groups Research Pressure Instruments Cease Pressure Groups

Book:Against Method

Source: Against Method

“In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit. Whatever religion they may profess, they are spiritual kinsmen. While the different religions in their historic forms bind us to limited groups and militate against the development of loyalty to the world community, the mystics have already stood for the fellowship of humanity in harmony with the spirit of the mystics of ages gone by.”

World May Different Age Spiritual Form Spirit Humanity Community Gone Groups Development Tradition Harmony Unity Loyalty Remarkable Historic Fellowship Mystic Different Religions

Author:Haile Selassie

“When you're fat, the world is divided into two groups - people who bug you and people who leave you alone. The funny thing is, supporters and saboteurs exist in either camp.”

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Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“We can only live the changes we wish to see: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create. We must break the obsolete social and economic systems that divide the world between the over-privileged and the under-privileged. Each of us, whether government leader or protester, business executive or worker, professor or student, share a common guilt.”

“The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present in this one. There is also the argument that elders have "experience." The problem is that experience teaches fear of change. Experience kills imagination. Experience makes people conservative. What we are facing tomorrow requires the force of imagination, not wisdom from yesterday.”

People World Ideas Problem Past Force Imagination Teach Groups Tomorrow Civilization Argument Conservative Yesterday Linked Elders Other Worlds Fear Of Change

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look holistically at the way intersectionality informs all of us: whiteness, gender, sexual preferences, etc. Only then can we have a realistic handle on the political and cultural world we live within.”

People World Way Looks Important Able Political Consciousness Focus One Thing Groups Blame Gender Critical Handle Etc Realistic Preference Whiteness Intersectionality Focus On One Thing

Author:Bell Hooks

“I love being part of a group who tells stories, whether it be in the theater or in cinema, and I love creating imaginary worlds rather as children do, but I never had a burning desire to act, but it just sort of suited me.”

World Children Stories Desire Love Is Groups Creating Theater Burning Cinema Imaginary Burning Desire Imaginary World

Author:Jeremy Irons

“I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it. I think we ask too many questions of ourselves. We make too much importance of stuff. But I do say to actors when I have taught in classes, or when I sometimes do a talk to a group. I'll say, “If I never acted again, the world wouldn't stop, nor would it stop if I didn't stop acting. That's how important it is. I know it [seems] important when you're young. But I say, “Lighten up. Don't take it all so seriously.” All the gurus and teachers will take your money and run.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Important Sometimes Seems Running Young Actors Asks Stuff Enjoy Acting Class Too Much Teacher Groups Taught Importance Guru

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“What we are determined to do is to take more people from Syria and that war-torn part of the world as a response to this particular crisis, but again I stress we are taking people from camps because the last thing we want to do is to encourage and reward people smuggling.We are taking people from camps and we are taking family groups; our focus will be on family groups, from persecuted minorities.”

People World Want War Lasts Focus Groups Particular Stress Crisis Response Rewards Determined Minorities Camps Syria Torn Persecuted Smuggling

Author:Tony Abbott

“The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!”

People World Groups Nervous Frightened Insecure

Author:Terry Gilliam

“I don't think of writing my poems for China or for the world. I mainly think of a small audience of friends and people I know. I am writing for that small group. They are not necessarily going to be able to read it, but that's what I have in mind when I write.”

People Thinking Knows World Writing Mind Able Audience Groups China Small Groups

Author:Bei Dao

“Gaza is such a tremendous humanitarian problem, it's way beyond Israel's capability to do anything significant about. It's a world problem, but the world doesn't want to do anything about it. That the world has packed them like sardines in a tiny piece of territory run by a fanatic Islamic group, run by a fanatic group like Hamas. Unless the world decides it wants to tackle this problem, that they want to deal with refugees there, prepare to absorb some of the refugees.”

World Way Want Problem Running Deals Pieces Groups Israel Humanitarian Tiny Significant Islamic Territory Capability Refugee Fanatics Gaza Hamas World Problems Sardines

Author:Moshe Arens

“I had on my team a girl who at age twelve just missed the world mile record for her age group. But at 20 she just couldn't run.”

World Running Age Girl Records Groups Team Miles Twelve

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“The feeling that dreams show us the real nature of reality is something that's shared by many indigenous groups around the world.”

World Real Shows Feelings Dream Reality Groups Around The World Indigenous

Author:Stanley Krippner

“In the past twenty years, we have lived through several cycles and we have always managed to buy under good terms and conditions at the right time. This has enabled us to build a solid group that is now the world number one.”

World Years Motivational Past Term Numbers Groups Conditions Twenties Cycles Right Time

Author:Lakshmi Mittal

“A small group of people, they raise the price of oil and the whole world will suffer from this.”

People World Whole Suffering Groups Raises Oil Whole World Small Groups

Author:Ahmed Zaki Yamani

“The problem with representation in the media has very much to do with the conflicts between groups in the world. If you talk about Iraq, al Qaeda, Darfur, even Taiwan, representation is a part of that problem.”

Ifs World Problem Groups Media Conflict Iraq Als Representation Al Qaeda Taiwan Darfur

Author:Arthur Dong

“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.”

Thinking World Trying Important Self Whole Use Used Groups Figures Resources Whole World Selected

Author:Susan Orlean

“I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors the world itself. Aside from the packaging, there is nothing that cannot be found in most churches today that could not be satisfied by any number of secular programs and self-help groups.”

Source: Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

“I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the most civilized organization in history. Its currency is the written word. Its weapon is the letter; that's why I am a member. I believe in its non-violence; I believe in its effectiveness. Its dignity and its sense of commitment. Its focus on individuals and the concentration and tenacity with which they defend those imprisoned for their ideas has earned it the cautious respect of repressive governments throughout the world.”

“One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.”

Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

“I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with.”

People World I Can Groups Special Computer Core Around The World Fortunate Plus Load Lecturer Special People

Author:Paul Kane

“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.”

World Use Difficult Voice Poor Groups This World Resources Indigenous Concentrating Highlights

Author:Anita Roddick

“Men, as an organization, are getting more women than any other group working anywhere in the world. Wherever women are, we have men looking into it.”

Men World Groups Organization

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.”

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Author:John Pilger

“You can draw a line between what I'm interested in and what I'm not interested in. On one side you can name Dylan and Lennon, who observe the world and have feelings, and write songs directly from those feelings. On the vapid side you have pop groups who need material and write songs to fill the hole, rather than getting somebody else.”

World Needs Writing Feelings Song Names Sides Lines Groups Materials Draws Pops Holes Not Interested Dylan Lennon Vapid

Author:Roger Waters

“The word religion literally means, in Latin, to link or bind together; and despite the vast variation in the world's religions, Wilson shows that religions always serve to coordinate and orient people's behavior toward each other and toward the group as a whole, sometimes for the purpose of competing with other groups.”

People World Mean Sometimes Whole Shows Together Purpose Groups Behavior Despite Latin Links Competing Variation Wilson Coordinates

Book:The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

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