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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
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"We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling, "support" groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people "share" and "heal," the question, "What for?", "What now?" is no longer asked."

People Support Groups
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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
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"Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug all your life. Make your last days the best ones. People might suppose this was in poor taste."

People Atheism Groups
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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group."

Groups Confusion Statistics
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Vincent de Paul Saint, Priest
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"If, in order to succeed in an enterprise, I were obliged to choose between fifty deer commanded by a lion, and fifty lions commanded by a deer, I should consider myself more certain of success with the first group than with the second."

Order Groups Lions
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Ray Bradbury Author
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"We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be."

Way Helping Groups
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Theo Rossi Actor
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"If you see a biker chick hanging out with a group of bikers and associated with them, stay away. You'll know right away if a biker chick is free; if she's with someone, she's right by his side. Getting with somebody's old lady is a big no-no. That's more serious than anything in that world."

World Groups Bikers
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Ruth Wilson Actress
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"Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death."

Groups States Racism
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Neil Gaiman Author
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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."

Thinking Different Groups
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"The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling originates in preaching. Personal counseling imparts to the preacher a practical familiarity with human nature which he would not otherwise obtain."

Running Groups Circles
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Joel Miller Author, Speaker
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"Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good."

Government Use Groups
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could."

Thinking Different Groups
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