Small Groups Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they shared our genes. Now we live in big cities. We are not among kin nor people who will ever reciprocate our good deeds. It doesn't matter. Just as people engaged in sex with contraception are not aware of being motivated by a drive to have babies, it doesn't cross our mind that the reason for do-gooding is based in the fact that our primitive ancestors lived in small groups.

  Richard Dawkins

  Baby, Sex, Past

  Source: inters.org

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• The entire human race faced a singularity when one small group discovered, ooh, technology. We can live a different way. Eventually, that spelled the death of the old way of life.

  Howard Rheingold

  Technology, Race, Groups

  Source: medium.com

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• That feels natural to me, singing in a small group of people I just can't do. You'll never hear me sing at a dinner table or anything, but this feels kinda natural. I've done it many, many times. So, and also, the pressure's off me cos I'm not singing on my own. I'm just doing a few harmonies with my stuffed nose.

  George Michael

  People, Singing, Tables

  Source: www.gminfopage.com

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• We have always had, remember, small groups of both parties that split off. There were the "blue dog Democrats." There were the "Dixie Democrats." Democrats were never going to, ever again, pull together.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Dog, Party, Blue

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• The U.S. and, to a certain extent, countries in Europe as well, have experienced growing inequality within their population for decades - a small group of people own the lion's share of the wealth. Populists take advantage of this, and their policies are extremely hard to predict. And this has serious consequences. Companies shy away from risk, postponing their investment decisions in times of uncertainty, the stock markets get nervous and unemployment threatens to increase.

  Nicholas Bloom

  Country, Europe, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• 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 am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. Our government is no longer based on the freedom of opinion, nor on the conviction and the majority decision, it is now a government which is subjected to the conviction and the compulsion of a small group of dominant men.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Decision

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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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• When you get a small group of fans who hate something, it becomes compounded by the internet. The press picks up the internet like it's a source. They don't realise it is just one person typing out their opinion.

  George Lucas

  Hate, Fans, Groups

  "Star Wars archive: George Lucas 1999 interview". Interview with Ian Freer, www.empireonline.com. September 1999.

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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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• 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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• 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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• There's a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it's a small group that actually has it.

  Curtis Jackson

  Hip Hop, Guy, Groups

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• He would usually study with a small group of students, men and women.

  Frederick Lenz

  Men, Groups, Students

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• This is where each individual must decide for himself. The essential thing is the decision to challenge the modern state, which without this small group of protesters will be checked by neither brake, value, nor reason.

  Jacques Ellul

  Decision, Challenges, Groups

  "The Ethics of Freedom". Book by Jacques Ellul, translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley, p. 397, 1976.

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• Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and say, “Oh, let’s just free the slaves.” ... Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people — usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time — had a better idea and articulated another way. That’s simply how evolution works; it’s the mutation — the member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they’re better adapted for survival.

  Marianne Williamson

  Ideas, People, Survival

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience. Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Strong, Groups, Would Be

  Irvin D. Yalom (1983). “Inpatient Group Psychotherapy”, Basic Books

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• An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation with the right of secession. The individual or the family or the small group as a unit instead of the State.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Groups, Needs, Cooperation

  Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.34, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can.

  Margaret Mead

  People, Groups, Underestimate

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• A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen as 'the Zen cult'. The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Gentleman

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• Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to small groups of scholars and specialists. Economics deals with society's fundamental problems; it concerns everyone and belongs to all. It is the main and proper study of every citizen.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Groups, Citizens, Fundamentals

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.1093, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Small groups have always been the locus of change. What they do, in a sometimes offhand way, is constellate new cultural forms and give birth to the unexpected. Sometimes the talk is the thing, sometimes the feeling. When we risk talking about something we really care about it's infectious. Like any good infection, such talk can produce heat, a fever of intellectual excitement.

  Stephanie Mills

  Talking, Giving, Feelings

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