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"The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals." »Rensis Likert
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"Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done." »Fred Allen
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"On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men." »Ignazio Silone
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"When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history." »Arthur Koestler
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"“The power trust is nothing more than a select group of dictators, with the same goals and objectives - but unlike the brutal dictators we study in history - this select group prefers to operate in the dark, behind banks, governments, politicians, companies, and so forth.”" »John Rocco Savalli
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"A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own." »Adam Smith
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"All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life." »Thomas Mann
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"Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition." »Alexander Hamilton, P. 217 - A History of the American People by P. Johnson
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"No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back." »John Holt
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"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special." »Fran Lebowitz
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"Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story." »Lincoln Steffens
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"Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening." »Barbara Tober
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"What is a committee A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary." »Richard Harkness
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"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing." »Sir Ralph Richardson
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." »Margaret Mead
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"The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert." »Vince Lombardi
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"Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism." »Charles Lindberg Sr., 1915
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"At group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats." »Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985
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"Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him." »H. L. Mencken
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""I know names. I know who's behind it. I know about the big group in Texas. But I could prove nothing. I'm snuffed, any way you look at it. So here is where my end begins."
Lee Harvey Oswald, July 29, 1963 New Orleans" »Judyth Vary Baker
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"A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday." »Russell Wayne Baker
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"Richard It's called reading-top to bottom-left to right-group words together into sentences-take tylenol for any headaches-midol for any cramps." »Tommy Boy
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"I'd give Charles Darwin videotapes of 'Geraldo,' 'Beavis and Butt-head' and 'The McLaughlin group.' I would be interested in seeing if he still believes in evolution." »Dean Koontz
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"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." »Indira Gandhi
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"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition." »Indira Nehru Gandhi
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"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights." »Clarence Thomas
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"It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race." »Clarence Jordan
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"If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF." »John Dingell
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"We talk on principle, but we act on interest." »Walter Savage Landor
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"I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me." »Terence
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