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• At least once per year, some group of scientists will become very excited and announce that:
  •The universe is even bigger than they thought!
  •There are even more subatomic particles than they thought!
  •Whatever they announced last year about global warming is wrong.

  Dave Barry

  Years, Lasts, Global Warming

  Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, Team, Bats

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• Coaching is about finding a system that works for your players. There are some underlying principles which are applied in any coaching situation but it's about picking the lock to get this group of players to play the best volleyball they're capable of playing for a long period of time.

  Hugh McCutcheon

  Volleyball, Player, Long

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• For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value. Those that I took later until my 28th year [i.e., until 1574] I call juvenile and fairly serviceable. The third group, however, which I made at Uraniborg during approximately the last 21 years with the greatest care and with very accurate instruments at a more mature age, until I was fifty years of age, those I call the observations of my manhood, completely valid and absolutely certain, and this is my opinion of them.

  Tycho Brahe

  Science, Years, Age

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• The importance of group theory was emphasized very recently when some physicists using group theory predicted the existence of a particle that had never been observed before, and described the properties it should have. Later experiments proved that this particle really exists and has those properties.

  Irving Adler

  Science, Should Have, Theory

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• The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria.

  Richard Owen

  Character, Science, Order

  Report of the Eleventh Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science "Report on British Fossil Reptiles" (1842)

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• Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament is the queen of all devotions. It is the central devotion of the Church. All others gather round it, and group themselves there as satellites; for others celebrate his mysteries; this is Himself. It is the universal devotion. No one can be without it, in order to be a Christian. How can a man be a Christian who does not worship the living Presence of Christ?

  Frederick William Faber

  Christian, Queens, Blessed

  Frederick William Faber (1855). “The Blessed Sacrament: or, The works and ways of God: By Frederick William Faber”, p.502

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• Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free.

  Benedetto Croce

  Party, Equality, Expression

  Benedetto Croce (1942). “Freedom: Its Meaning”

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• Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix it." Yet ... every time the government uses its money or its power to favor this group or that ... the net result is such a web of supports, subsidies, interventions and controls that it is almost impossible for a nation to find its way back into a dynamic system of really free enterprise.

  Lawrence Fertig

  Government, People, Support

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• Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

  Cyril Ponnamperuma

  Science, Self, Prejudice

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• The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can seldom or never make experiments for himself, he has to accept the data of daily experience, and discuss as best he can the relations of a whole group of changes; he cannot, like the physicist, narrow down the issue to the effect of one variation at a time. The problems of statistics are in this sense far more complex than the problems of physics.

  Udny Yule

  Science, Opportunity, Data

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• The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

  Pierre Duhem

  Science, Tests, Hypothesis

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• Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them.

  Jose Antonio Carrillo

  Atheist, Artist, Ideas

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• Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another.

  Geert Hofstede

  Mind, Culture, Programming

  Geert Hofstede (1980). “Culture's Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values”, Sage Publications, Incorporated

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• The way in which a group of people solves problems.

  Geert Hofstede

  People, Culture, Way

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• In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Mean, Compassion, Giving Money

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• The Center for Public Integrity is the real thing. A group of dedicated people who remember that great journalism is about grit and guts and stamina and razor-sharp instincts. They are, thank heaven, here to stay.

  Diane Sawyer

  Integrity, Real, People

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• The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Women, Hands, Democracy

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• It certainly is a very difficult group,. We're still bleeding after the Champions League final and want our revenge.

  Paolo Maldini

  Revenge, Champions League, Finals

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• We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design.

  Jonathan Ive

  Jobs, Philosophical, Opportunity

  "Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh". Evening Standard Interview, www.standard.co.uk. March 12, 2012.

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• I was on the central table and we were a very intimate group.

  I. K. Gujral

  Powerful, Tables, Intimate

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• I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human rights issues. We are collective custodians of universal human rights standards, and any sense that we fall into camps of "accuser" and "accused" is absolutely corrosive of our joint purposes. The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the "victim" mode.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Attitude, Believe

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• Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

  David Mamet

  Police, Citizens, Cherish

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint-there are three sorts of human being who are particularly likely still to see point in it and befriend it. They are poets, scientists and children. Inside each of us, I suggest, representatives of all these groups can be found.

  Mary Midgley

  Children, Science, Race

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• A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone to do much thinking or problem solving of military significance. That would leave, say, five years to develop man-computer symbiosis and 15 years to use it. The 15 may be 10 or 500, but those years should be intellectually the most creative and exciting in the history of mankind.

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Military, Science, Men

  J. C. R. Licklider, Robert W. Taylor (1990). “In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990”

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