"When you involve yourself in a group like No Labels, …I think it is a positive step in the right direction of trying to get things done"
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"There are so many groups making so much money in the medical care system that any major reorganization is going to make someone unhappy or anxious at the least, ... I don't know how you do it."
""Stop Already" is a fairly new poem in a group that was just published by Feminist Studies, which is why I sent them to you."
"A group of followers has strength because of its numbers. A following has power because of its beliefs."
"I was a nobody when I met with the publisher. Nobody knew who I was. I was doing some speaking for entrepreneurs. I did little groups. I had no following."
"I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and highly injurious."
"People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups."
"I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group."
"How can there be self-help groups?"
"The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them."
"The best defense for any group of people is what we do to defend other people."
"Well, I came down to LA initially to join The Groundlings, which is an improv comedy group. I didn't get in, of course, becaue I'm not a part of The Groundlings. I just assumed that I could walk in and take over. So they said: "Hit the road Jack." And I ended up getting an agent instead. They sent me out on a couple of leads and I ended up on a sitcom and Van Wilder thereafter and then pantsless with Sandra Bullock."
"Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage."
"Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation."
"The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments"
"There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves."
"I don't affiliate myself with any specific religious group. I connect to different ritualistic aspects of different belief systems, and I see the connecting thread between all religious beliefs."
"I'm always open, and will criticize myself, too. And I just think being that honest with everybody puts you in a different space than somebody who's just shooting venom at a certain group or a certain amount of individuals."
"What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects."
"If God had meant us to have group sex, I guess he'd have given us all more organs."