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"Scalia said the court had pretty much signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, adding: Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, or any other group, promoting their agenda through normal democratic means."
"Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another."
"For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo."
"That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed."
"I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person"
"Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans."
"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."
"Any group, any group that can't work with all other groups, if they are genuinely interested in solving the problems of the Negro collectively why, I don't think that that group is really sincerely motivated toward reaching a solution."
"Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity."
"I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right."
"At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups."
"Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups."
"Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups."
"Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves."
"Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them."
"Oh, he was probably a member of the National Rifle Association. It was a group that helped criminals get guns so they could shoot citizens. It was a public service."
"It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question."
"What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying"
"A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time."
"Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes."
