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“Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“There are so many groups making so much money in the medical care system that any major reorganization is going to make someone unhappy or anxious at the least, ... I don't know how you do it.”

Knows Care Know How Groups Majors Medical Unhappy Unhappiness Anxious Medical Care Reorganization

Author:Tony Robbins

“Governments and politicians use the family as an indicator of the health and strength of social life. Politicians fear that any weakening of family life will in some way sap the vitality of national life.... The family is also important to businessmen. It is one of the major purchasing groups of our consumer society.”

Way Important Use Government Social Groups Politician Majors Consumers Businessman Vitality Family Life Social Life Sap Indicators Weakening Purchasing Health And Strength

Author:Adrian Wilson

“In the native world, major gods come in trios, duos, and groups. It is the habit of non-natives to discover the supreme being, the one and only head god, a habit lent to them by monotheism.”

World God Groups Habit Majors Supreme Native Supreme Being Monotheism Trios Duos

Book:Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook

Source: Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook

“Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.”

Love Funny Mother Careers Four Groups Majors Humorous Guilt Witty Secret Love Food Love

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“Producing major change in an organization is not just about signing up one charismatic leader. You need a group - a team - to be able to drive the change. One person, even a terrific charismatic leader, is never strong enough to make all this happen.”

Needs Persons Enough Happens Able Strong Leader Groups Team Majors Organization Terrific Strong Enough Signing Charismatic Major Change Signing Up

Author:John P. Kotter

“Powerful groups with anti-Christian worldviews dominate major media and major educational institutions.”

Christian Religious Powerful Groups Media Majors Institutions Educational Worldview Anti Christian Educational Institutions Christian Worldview

Author:Marvin Olasky

“I was way more nervous on the opening day of the Ryder Cup than the first round of any major. Every Ryder Cup match is like being in the last group on Sunday in a major.”

Way Firsts Lasts Groups Majors Rounds Opening Nervous Cups Sunday Opening Day

Author:Tom Lehman

“The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to 'the little guy.' Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group, have long underperformed the unsophisticated index-fund investor who simply sits tight for decades. A major reason has been fees: Many institutions pay substantial sums to consultants who, in turn, recommend high-fee managers. And that is a fool's game.”

Littles Long Has Beens Reason Guy Turns Games Sin Pay Groups Huge Fool Majors Institutions Investment Investing Decades Managers Fund Investors Fees Consultants Index Funds

Author:Warren Buffett

“One of my central maxims is how a major part of what a conductor tries to do is get a large group of people to agree on where "now" actually is.”

People Trying Groups Majors Agree Maxims Conductor Large Groups

Author:Michael Tilson Thomas

“The major changes that will be occurring within the new merged partnership are exciting in many ways. First, we will have the highest forecast distribution growth rate of any of the major MLPs. Second, our coverage will be above average for the same peer group with expected $1.1 billion of excess cash flow coverage through 2017 and the Access cash flows, along with our major new fee based projects continue to dramatically reduce exposure to commodity prices.”

“The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling on a global scale, hiring executives and consultants ranging from Republican power broker James Baker and former president George Herbert Walker Bush to foreign leaders like former British prime minister John Major and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos.”

“Protestants are the more segmented group. Mainline churches - you have problems in the U.S., Europe, the Scottish Church, the Dutch Protestant Church, the state church in Norway. The evangelicals have been pro Israel, but a major effort is to bring them in on the Palestinian side. A huge problem and the problems are rising.”

Has Beens States Problem Sides Church Effort Groups Huge Majors Europe Israel Rising Palestinian Protestants Scottish Dutch Norway

Author:Manfred Gerstenfeld

“You might be a redneck if you think that beef jerky and Moon Pies are two of the major food groups.”

Ifs Thinking Two Might Groups Moon Majors Pie Redneck Beef You Might Be A Redneck If Redneck Humor Beef Jerky

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid crying. I found out they just lost a game, and he was the losing pitcher. I went over there, put my arm around him, and said, 'What are you crying for? When major league players lose, they don't cry.'”

Littles Said Kids Found Games Lost Loses Player Groups Cry Arms Speech Majors Losing League One Time Little Kid Pitcher Major League

Author:Tommy Lasorda

“Satan delegates high-ranking members of the hierarchy of evil spirits to control nations, regions, cities, tribes, people groups, neighborhoods and other significant social networks of human beings throughout the world. Their major assignment is to prevent God from being glorified in their territory, which they do through directing the activity of lower-ranking demons.”

Source: Supernatural Forces in Spiritual Warfare: Wrestling with Dark Angels

“This famous quote hangs over my desk, as well as the desks of many people with the hubris and optimism to believe they can change the world for the better. It seems implausible, yet time and again history has proven it true. Virtually every major shift in cultural history can trace its origins to the work of a small group, often gathered around an innovative thinker or body of thought.”

People World Believe Wells Body Seems Groups Majors Optimism Changing The World Thinker Desks Proven Innovative Small Groups Hubris Hang Over

Author:Alan AtKisson

“Many feminists in the academy and in the major women's groups are knocking down open doors. It's 2016, not 1950. But you wouldn't know that if you looked through a typical women's studies textbook or website.”

Ifs Knows Study Doors Groups Majors Feminist Typical Website Academy Knocking Textbooks

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital investment in a major printing press. That's a big difference. Same is true of more advanced technologies - it can offer plenty of liberatory possibilities - can - but whether it does or not or whether it serves for coercion depends on socioeconomic decisions.”

“The US presidency will continue to represent the major power groups of the United States - big business and the military - regardless of who the talking head is.”

States Bigs United Talking United States Groups Military Majors Presidency Big Business Talking Heads

Author:Julian Assange

“The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not to attribute qualities and intentions where they do not belong.”

Important Problem Quality Groups Poet Majors Intention Various Objectives Journalist Attributes

Author:Ansel Adams

“The failure to find the right niche for people - or to let them find their own perfect niches - is a major reason that so many workplaces are mediocre, even toxic, in spite of the presence of talent. Leaders of great groups give them whatever they need and free them from everything else.”

People Needs Giving Reason Perfect Leader Groups Talent Majors Spite Toxic Workplace Mediocre Niche

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.”

Way Seems Humanity Race Groups Majors Division

Author:David Mitchell

“So what happened? (Maggie) Nothing major. It’s just a group of assholes out to kill me. (Wren)”

Happened Groups Majors Kill Me Maggie Wrens

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon