“Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work.” IfsTryingDoePlayBigsInterestPartyPayGroupsInfluenceSpecialLimitsBenefitsEthicsSpendingCampaignsFinanceReformOfficialsExceptionSpecial InterestsContractorInterest GroupsPublic OfficialsCampaign FinanceSpecial Interest Groups Author:Thomas Kean, Jr.
“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.” ThinkingFeelsReasonMightLosesPowerfulGroupsLimitsPatientTherapyCollectivesAllowingInteractionReluctantTherapistsCoerce Book:Inpatient Group Psychotherapy Source: Inpatient Group Psychotherapy
“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.” PeopleIfsBodyLinesRoomsGroupsInfluenceStreetsProduceLimitsImpressionSettingSettingsMidstPortraitsLiving RoomTotality Author:Medardo Rosso
“It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist, caused it to crumble. One generation of man at the most was the limit of its endurance. The faith of the first Christian generation is intelligible, but the faith of the second generation is no longer so. After the death of John, or of the last survivor, whoever he might be, of the group which had seen the master, the word of Jesus was convicted of falsehood.” MenWorldFirstsMightChristianLastsJesusTakenGenerationsGroupsAtheismMastersLimitsPositive AtheismDoctrineEnduranceSurvivorFalsehoodContinuingEvidentLiteral Book:The Life of Jesus: Works of Renan Source: The Life of Jesus: Works of Renan
“For nearly a century the psychoanalysts have been writing op-ed pieces about the workings of a country they've never traveled to, a place that, like China, has been off-limits. Suddenly, the country has opened its borders and is crawling with foreign correspondents, neurobiologists are filing ten stories a week, filled with new data. These two groups of writers, however, don't seem to read each other's work. That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain.” WritingMindHas BeensTwoCountryStoriesSeemsBrainPiecesGroupsWeekCenturyTenLimitsFilledChinaDataBordersTraveledAnalystsCrawlingFiling Author:Susanna Kaysen
“Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from those in junior high, and those who are twenty from those who are twenty-five. There are middle-middle-age groups, late-middle-age groups, and old-age groups - as though people with five years between them could not possibly have anything in common.” PeopleYearsAgeTodaySchoolSocialCommonFiveGroupsMiddleLimitsLateHigh SchoolTwentiesOld AgeFive YearsDividesIsolatedSaneFifteenSeventiesSegregationMiddle AgesJuniorsTwenty FiveFifteen YearsJunior HighSocial Groups Author:Suzanne Gordon
“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
“People learn a lot about what they think they know about other people from what they see in the media. If they see certain types of images reproduced over and over again for other groups that limit them to narrow types of roles and portrayals, they start to take those prejudices into their interactions with those people in real society, and that creates all kinds of discriminatory problems.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsKindRealProblemCertainRolesGroupsMediaTypeLimitsPrejudiceAll KindsInteractionPortrayal Author:Darnell M. Hunt
“For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because of the complexity of managing groups. We haven't had all the groups we've wanted, we've simply had the groups we could afford. The old limits of what unmanaged and unpaid groups can do are no longer in operation.” Has BeensWantedPoliticalDesirePoliticsStrongCan DoEffortGroupsModernTalentHavensLimitsStructureOperationsComplexityModern LifeGroup Effort Author:Clay Shirky
“Bismarck had cunningly taught the parties not to aim at national appeal but to represent interests. They remained class or sectional pressure-groups under the Republic. This was fatal, for it made the party system, and with it democratic parliamentarianism, seem a divisive rather than a unifying factor. Worse: it meant the parties never produced a leader who appealed beyond the narrow limits of his own following.” MadeSeemsInterestPartyLeaderClassGroupsTaughtLimitsPressureAimDemocraticFollowingFactorsAppealsRepublicUnifyingPressure GroupsBismarck Author:Paul Johnson
“When Obama's economic advisers - a greater group of schlemiels would be hard to find - warn that failure to raise the limit will trigger default and horrific consequences for the global economy, Republicans should reply that if this is so, tell it to your president and get him to approve the spending cuts along with the debt-limit increase.” IfsShouldHardWould BePresidentEconomyGreaterCuttingGroupsEconomicRepublicanLimitsConsequenceIncreaseRaisesDebtSpendingTriggersDefaultGlobal EconomyHorrificAdviserSpending Cuts Author:Dick Morris
“What's interesting is this election year has made the citizen groups off-limits. All these citizen groups? - local, state, national? - that really do things and improve the country, they're never asked to be in these electoral campaign discussions.” YearsMadeCountryStatesInterestingGroupsCitizensLimitsElectionCampaignsLocalsDiscussionElection Years Author:Ralph Nader
“We need to put limits on how much an individual, group or business can spend on influencing an individual legislator or a whole set of legislators. Look at the vast sums that the NRA spends on getting all legislators to be soft on gun control. Legislators find it hard to refuse the NRA's largess when they need contributions to their political campaign wherever they can get them.” NeedsLooksHardWholePoliticalIndividualGroupsInfluenceLimitsGunRefuseCampaignsContributionGun ControlLegislatorsNraPolitical Campaign Author:Philip Kotler
“The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.” StillsIndividualTeacherGroupsTeachingLimitsBasketballExceedTeachers And TeachingTeacher Appreciation Author:Mike Krzyzewski