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• The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

  Alfred Doblin

  Home, Men, Cities

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• Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Inspirational, Birthday, Quilts

  "The Power and Solidarity of Women". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 09, 2016.

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• I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

  Daniel Craig

  Thinking, Film

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• Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

  Richard Aldington

  Military, Responsibility, Patriotism And Nationalism

  Colonel's Daughter (1931) pt. 1, ch. 6

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• Perhaps one reason that many working parents do not agitate for collective reform, such as more governmental or corporate child care, is that the parents fear, deep down, that to share responsibility for child rearing is to abdicate it.

  Faye J Crosby

  Children, Responsibility, Working Parents

  Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone

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• The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Sports, Country

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.220, Random House

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• For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Class, People, Identity

  Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1955). “Imperialism and Social Classes: Two Essays”, p.126, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.

  Amiri Baraka

  Moving, Reality, Blue

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1984). “Daggers and javelins: essays, 1974-1979”, William Morrow & Co

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• Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Fire, People, Different

  Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

  Will Smith

  Thinking, Collective Unconscious, Ideas

  "Will Smith Interview - I AM LEGEND". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. December 10, 2007.

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• In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

  Naveen Jain

  Attitude, Failure, Fall

  FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Aug 19, 2016

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• The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Law, Liberty

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• An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Success, Business

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all costs.

  Ron Jaworski

  Football, Agreement, Years

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• In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.

  Paul Ryan

  Real, Government, Priorities

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• Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.

  Norman Cousins

  Life, Motivational, Peace

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• The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

  David Mamet

  Symbolic Meaning, Perception, Tragedy

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• The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

  Omar Bongo

  Responsibility, Justice, Principles

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• We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility

  Thomas Szasz

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Guilt

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.79, Transaction Publishers

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• A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Land, Tyrants, Thrones

  "Antisemitism: Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism". Book by Hannah Arendt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 127, 2012.

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• I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

  Kathy Acker

  Mean, Hygiene, People

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• I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.

  Bob Black

  Travel, Adventure, Joy

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Jobs, Rehabilitation, Consciousness

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.87, John Wiley & Sons

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• The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

  Irving Kaufman

  Trust, History, Our Society

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• Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

  Henry Fuseli

  Nature, Essence, Ideas

  James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli (1848). “Lectures on Painting”, p.495

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