"Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students."
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"The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known."
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"Surround yourself with a really good group of friends that are true and honest and won't lead you astray and make you compromise who you are as a woman or a young woman."
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"Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister."
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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."
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"The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become."
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"I don't know if you know this," Tobias says, "but Edward is a little unstable." "I'm getting that," I say. "That Drew guy who helped Peter perform that butterknife maneuver," Tobias says. "Apparently when he got kicked out of Dauntless, he tried to join the same group of factionless Edward was a part of. Notice that you haven't seen Drew anywhere."
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"The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of the Muslim word, religious groups."
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"I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels."
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"Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met."
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"I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals."
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"But, you know, there's another group that really runs the show. It's very shadowy, just as you've described... Those of us in the Congress of the United States are window dressing."
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"A certain group of adolescents evidence clear "druggie" behavior and attributes some time before they actually begin drug use."
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"I do like to hang out in the corner and keep my eye on the party, or be outside in a smaller group."
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"The impression I got during the research and interview process was that they are trying to own the disease and therefore own the cause which can ultimately be more profitable for some corporations and fund-raising groups."
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"Research has deserted the individual and entered the group. The individual worker find the problem too large, not too difficult. He must learn to work with others."
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"I keep a creative group around me."
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"Whether you're with a group of people, whether you're playing music or whether you're by yourself, even if it's written material, you have to be listening."
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"One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers."
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"It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid."
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