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• The IPCC 'policy summaries,' written by a small group of their political operatives, frequently contradict the work of the scientists that prepare the scientific assessments. Even worse, some of the wording in the science portions has been changed by policy makers after the scientists have approved the conclusions.

  Peter Friedman

  Assessment, Political, Groups

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• The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses... This little coterie...runs our government for their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created screen...seizes...our executive officers...legislative bodies...schools... courts...newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.

  John Francis Hylan

  Running, Selfish, Real

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• This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.

  Matt Taibbi

  Thinking, People, Political

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• Harry Potter has actually been a very intimate phenomenon, the story of small groups of people acting in ways they shouldn't, doing things they usually wouldn't, and making the kind of history that, without Harry, they pretty much couldn't.

  Melissa Anelli

  People, Acting, Groups

  Melissa Anelli (2008). “Harry, A History - Now Updated with J.K. Rowling Interview, New Chapter & Photos: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Keys, Effort, Innovation

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• Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.

  Christina Aguilera

  Mom, Mother, Groups

  "Christina Aguilera Talks Tears & Sadness Over Separation", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2010.

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• I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots and lots of small groups who like you a lot, they add up to a big group without ever actually becoming mainstream.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Groups, Different

  "Neil Gaiman: 'I don't think I'm mainstream. I'm lots of different cults'". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.

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• Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed towards our species goal: Space Migration, which in turn offers the only way to re-attain individual freedom of space-time and the small-group social structures which obviously best suit our nervous systems. It is another paradox of neuro-genetics that only in space habitats can humanity return to the village life and pastoral style for which we all long.

  Timothy Leary

  Moon, Village Life, Space

  Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, George A. Koopman (1988). “Neuropolitique”, New Falcon Publications

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• When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it.

  Ethan Hawke

  Sunset, People, Sunrise

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• The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.

  William E. Simon

  Government, People, Groups

  William E. Simon (1979). “Time for Truth”, Berkley

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• C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Successful, Unity, Groups

  "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.

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• In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

  Alex Steffen

  Block, Government, Cities

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• The same way all the people I love factor in—my parents, my sister, my girlfriend [Lena Dunham], my best friend, all the people I love are always right there. I don't have a lot of people in my life, but there's a small group of people that I don't like to do things without.

  Jack Antonoff

  Girlfriend, People, Parent

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• A small group is powerful in matters relating to a particular industry, because then it is normally the only organized force, but it is less formidable when questions which divide the entire nation are involved, for then it must take on organized labor and other large organized groups. The business community in the aggregate is for this reason not uniquely effective as a pressure group.

  Mancur Olson

  Powerful, Pressure Groups, Community

  Mancur OLSON (2009). “THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION”, p.147, Harvard University Press

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• I'm sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I'm on that list. I'm a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

  Kevin Hart

  Garden, Squares, Groups

  "Up all night with Kevin Hart". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2013.

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• In the 1980s a small group of individuals became concerned about the Earth's temperature and what it might do in the future. I hesitate to call them scientists because they have abandoned their scientific principals by which their guess about temperature increases and the cause could achieve scientific acceptance or rejection.

  Walter Cunningham

  Acceptance, Rejection, Groups

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• There isn't a river or creek in the country - or there are very few - that doesn't have some small group of people working on a restoration or creek cleanup project. Let me give you one example that's a great metaphor: In Washington, D.C., there is a group called the Anacostia Watershed Society. Two rivers converge and define Washington - one which everybody knows about, the Potomac, and the Anacostia, which they don't. The Anacostia is one of the most polluted urban rivers in the country.

  Robert Hass

  Country, Two, Rivers

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is really in the hands of one person, or a small group of people, instead of a huge party-state apparatus. The possibility of a mistake is greater now.

  Anne Applebaum

  Mistake, Party, Russia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have bore the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered but the jobs left and the factories closed.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Government, Long

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.

  Reid Hoffman

  Believe, Groups, Doe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the falsified democracy of bourgeois states). There remains the anarchism which acts by means of persuasion, by the creation of small groups and networks, denouncing falsehood and oppression, aiming at a true overturning of authorities of all kinds as people at the bottom speak and organize themselves.

  Jacques Ellul

  Mean, People, Democracy

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• I like that when you create you really do create with a very small group of people, and in that space, before it goes out to all these people, that's what I love.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Space, People, Groups

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• I've directed our defense community headed by our great general now Secretary [James] Mattis, he's over there now working very hard to submit a plan for the defeat of ISIS, a group that celebrates the murder and torture of innocent people in large sections of the world, used to be a small group, now it's in large sections of the world.

  Donald Trump

  Working Very Hard, Isis, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When I talk about the city, I talk about a city that elevates people, which is the strength of New York. We always had the ability to do that. We had the services to do that: good schools, living-wage jobs. We're moving away from that toward a two-tiered system: a small group of very wealthy people and the rest of the city, poor and working poor.

  Sal Albanese

  Jobs, New York, Moving

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