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• The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

  Yoko Ono

  Men, Small Hands, Broken

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• I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.

  Yoko Ono

  Being Thankful, Crumbling, Way

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• I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

  Camille Paglia

  Children, Elderly, Law

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• I've never particularly liked travelling with large groups or being told where to go by somebody else. I prefer to find out for myself.

  Michael Palin

  Large Groups

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• I've been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I've often had a guide who's been able to show me things that you wouldn't see with a tour group.

  Michael Palin

  Numbers, Track, Lucky

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• An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.

  Leon Panetta

  Extremist Groups, Gains, Chemicals

  "Network Insecurity" by John Seabrook, www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2013.

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• You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far.

  Bill Parcells

  Thinking, Names, Want

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• At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.

  Michel Patini

  Finals, Denmark, Winner

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• A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

  Rand Paul

  Hate, Mean, Color

  "Rand Paul in '02: I may not like it, but 'a free society' will allow 'hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin'" by David Weigel, voices.washingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

  Ron Paul

  Men, Support, Troops

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• [W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Thinking, People, Hens

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.28, Vintage

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• One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these cases… but people prefer reassurance to research.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Support, Effort

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• No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people who sneer are almost always sneering at me.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  People, No Friends, Too Much

  Megan Whalen Turner (2017). “World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves”, p.20, HarperCollins

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

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Wrens, Maggie, Kill Me

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• Disease. Filth. Waste. Crime. Brutality. What’s there to like? (Solin) There’s brutality on Olympus. (Arik) True. But I hate humanity as much as I hate the gods. Both groups are selfish bastards bent on destroying everything around them. They were given a perfect world and rather than enjoy it, they’d rather destroy it and each other. Excuse me if I don’t look at them with love in my eyes but rather scorn in my heart. (Solin)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Selfish, Hate, Heart

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• And with his arm around the younger man's shoulders still, he led him away from the bow and back to the small group by the tiller. Halt glanced up as they approached, caught a look from Gilan and had a pretty good idea what they had been talking about. "Where have you two been?" he asked, his tone light. admiring the view," Gilan told him. "Thought you might need a hand from the two wisest heads on board.

  John Flanagan

  Men, Light, Views

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• That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground

  Neil Strauss

  Moral High Ground, Two, Hatred

  Neil Strauss (2011). “Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it”, p.53, Canongate Books

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• Gert: Wake me when the fight scene's over. Kitty Pryde: Oy, tell me about it. Hey, I'm Kitty. You the token pacifist of your group? Gert: Not exactly. Pacifists are like vegans, I'm more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Fighting, Hey, Vegetarian

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• There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known as the Illuminati. It is difficult to look for long at the strange single eye crowning the pyramid which is found on every dollar bill and not begin to believe the story, a little. Too many anarchists in 19th-century Europe—Bakunin, Proudhon, Salverio Friscia—were Masons for it to be pure chance. Lovers of global conspiracy, not all of them Catholic, can count on the Masons for a few good shivers and voids when all else fails.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Believe, Eye, Pyramids

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• I remember a group therapy session when one of the patients was reluctantly turning his corner. He would accept it, he said, but he wouldn't like the idea of having to solve problems every day for the rest of his life. My co-therapist told him that it was not required that he like it. She shared her own displeasure, saying: 'I remember that when I first discovered what life was like, I was furious. I guess I'm still kind of mad sometimes.' (135)

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Ideas, Mad, Firsts

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• I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.

  Lillian Hellman

  Fashion, Cutting, Long Ago

  Letter to John S. Wood, 19 May 1952.

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• We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read because we know we're alone. Reading offers a kind of companionship that takes no one's place but that no one can replace either. It offers no definitive explanation of our destiny but links us inextricably to life. Its tiny secret links remind us of how paradoxically happy we are to be alive while illuminating how tragically absurd life is.

  Daniel Pennac

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Dimitri. I hadn't known he was here. His eyes were on me too,dark and endless. Only I couldn't read what he was feeling. His face betrayed nothing, but there was something in his eyes...something intense and intimidating. The image of him ready to take down that group of guardians flashed through my mind,and something told me that if I asked,He would fight his way to me through this courtroom and do everything in his power to rescue me from it.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Fighting, Dark

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• It was as if the power and loneliness of the vampires' world had combined with the group oriented puppy-pile world of the shapeshifters and made something new.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Loneliness, Vampire, World

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• When I was a kid--10, 11, 12, 13--the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody. And back then, a thought would go through my head almost constantly: "There's never gonna be a room someplace where there's a group of people sitting around, having fun, hanging out, where one of them goes, 'You know what would be great? We should call Fiona. Yeah, that would be good.' That'll never happen. There's nothing interesting about me." I just felt like I was a sad little boring thing.

  Fiona Apple

  Fun, Kids, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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