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Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash. -- Kendrick Lamar
Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals. -- Daniel Kahneman
No violence, No competition, No Groups, No Chiefs. -- Sebastien Foucan
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight. -- John Lee Hooker
Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies. -- Jonathan Haidt
Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them. -- Warren G. Bennis
Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow. -- Thomas Sowell
Groups that work in black neighborhoods around the country have contended that much of subprime lending is 'predatory lending.' -- Bill Dedman
Groups tend to believe their work is harder, more strategic, or just more valuable while underestimating those contributions from other groups. -- Steven Sinofsky
Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network. -- Carroll Quigley
Groups that advocate open government have argued that it's vital to know the names of White House visitors, who may have an outsized influence on policy matters. -- Bill Dedman
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. -- Margaret Mead
Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups. -- Cathy Guisewite
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. -- George Carlin
Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense. -- Dalai Lama
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber. -- Jo Brand
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. -- Gautama Buddha
A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know. -- Margaret Mead
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it. -- Georg Simmel
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. -- Vince Lombardi
There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner. -- Chris Christie
Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar. -- Drew Carey
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded. -- Mark Twain
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood. -- Jonathan Haidt
If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of. -- Mindy Kaling
It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist. -- Gary Bauer
Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise. -- Margaret Mead
Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully. -- John A. Lejeune
I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region. -- Shah Rukh Khan
If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it. -- Edward Bernays
The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative. -- Benito Mussolini
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country. -- Margaret Mead
The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action. -- Ayn Rand
Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity. -- Meir Kahane
The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts. -- Rick Ross
The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group. -- Lawrence Kohlberg
But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants. -- Barbara Jordan
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps! -- Eleanor Roosevelt
During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades. -- Xi Jinping
We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes. -- Franz Boas
When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country. -- Molly Ivins
In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion. -- Stephen Harper
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. -- Milton Friedman
Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude. -- Robert Winston
If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals? -- George Bernard Shaw
But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts. -- Ayn Rand
There just needs to be a gay rapper. He doesn't have to be flamboyant, just a rapper who identifies as gay - who's better than everybody. Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best. -- Talib Kweli
My philosophy is based on the principle of self-ownership. You own your life. To deny this is to imply that another person has a higher claim on your life than you do. No other person, or group of persons, owns your life nor do you own the lives of others. -- Ken Schoolland
We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. -- Philip K. Dick
There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people. -- Al Sharpton
Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, take up this historic baton and continue working hard for the great renewal of the Chinese nation, so that we will stand rock firm in the family of nations and make fresh and greater contribution to mankind. -- Xi Jinping
If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit. -- Bill Kristol
Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws which would force ISPs to block or degrade BitTorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away. -- Wil Wheaton
Iceland sets a world-record. The United Nations asked people from all over the world a series of questions. Iceland stuck out on one thing. When we were asked what do we believe, 90% said, 'ourselves'. I think I'm in that group. If I get into trouble, there's no God or Allah to sort me out. I have to do it myself. -- Bjork
Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken. -- Rich Mullins
War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. -- Smedley Butler
The American public overwhelmingly regrets ObamaCare, our veterans are dying waiting to see doctors, the IRS intimidates conservative groups, the southern border is compared to a sieve and the president assures us not to worry - smiling, golfing and at this very moment partying... Because the fundraising never stops - not when four Americans die in Benghazi, and not when Baghdad is at the brink. -- Megyn Kelly
How can there be self-help groups? -- Steven Wright
It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups. -- Robert Lacey
Folklore is artistic communication in small groups. -- Dan Ben-Amos
Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality. -- Alexandra Robbins
All of mathematics is a tale about groups. -- Henri Poincare
I've always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay. -- Richard Marx
Right-to-life groups won't fund us because we're Democrats. -- Bart Stupak
We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators. -- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams. -- John Katzenbach
Federalism should be a meeting point of all groups. -- Khil Raj Regmi
The most powerful people on earth are focus groups. -- William J. Clinton
I'm a person who floats in many different groups. -- Marjorie Gubelmann
Jazz groups have to make a living any way. -- Lester Bowie
I love support groups, people talking about their feelings. -- Maria Bamford
There can be leftist groups that have not matured politically. -- Salvador Allende
Heads of state are actually prisoners of special interest groups. -- Deepak Chopra
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals. -- Agnes Repplier
Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure. -- Richard Saul Wurman
I love taxonomies, categories, ways of dividing people into groups. -- Gretchen Rubin
There's more variation among human groups than between human groups. -- Gloria Steinem
[Hillary] Clinton has also struggled with key groups of voters. -- Mara Liasson
Small groups of people can have a really huge impact. -- Larry Page
A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary. -- Raymond Kelly
I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups. -- John Densmore
I think small groups have more collective wisdom than an individual. -- Lewis Schiff
I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups. -- David Del Tredici
Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups. -- Tony Robbins
You can't call yourself a university and exclude whole ethnic groups. -- Bobby Seale
There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment. -- Janette Turner Hospital
I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music. -- Kristin Kreuk
I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people. -- Douglas Coupland
I don't see people as groups, I see them as individuals. -- Tommy Lee Jones
Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups. -- Marshall Ganz
We can coexist well [with Muslims]. But there are fundamentalist groups. -- Pope Francis
One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension. -- Johnny Rivers
Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Men who don't understand women fall into two groups: Bachelors and Husbands. -- Daniel Tosh
Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth. -- Ken Robinson
Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen. -- Gloria Steinem
Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them. -- Michael Hutchence
Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French. -- Bette Midler
And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups. -- Wendell Willkie
Community groups contend that door-to-door loan sales are often followed by foreclosures. -- Bill Dedman
Different groups in different areas developed different traits to assure their survival. -- Jim Goad
Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest. -- Alice Rivlin
Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition. -- John P. Kotter
The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups. -- Steven Weinberg
Powerful groups with anti-Christian worldviews dominate major media and major educational institutions. -- Marvin Olasky
I've traveled the world in one of the best groups ever. I'm 42. -- Tionne Watkins
Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better. -- John Stossel
Guys would hang out in groups just to be with the music. -- Jim Capaldi
Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups -- Paul Krugman
I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people. -- John Oates
I tend not to make fun of religious groups anywhere I play. -- Maz Jobrani
Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at. -- Janice Dickinson
We're inspired by groups who always try to change and get better. -- Eyedea
I like the groups on Factory, A Certain Ratio and Section 25. I -- Ian Curtis
They travel in groups. You never see an Asian by their self. -- Chelsea Handler
I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds. -- Laurie Helgoe

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