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"There's always someone who's going to interpret my material as racist, but it's not. Racism comes from intent and power. A racist will tell a joke about a group of people only when they're not in the room. I'll talk about a group of people only when they're in the room."
"Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have redistributed to persons or groups, already large holders of capital, through official subsidies."
"A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor hes not alone in the way he feels about himself."
"The International Court of Justice (a.k.a. World Court) is the judicial branch of the United Nations and in the early 1990's a campaign started and it was supported by civil society non-governmental groups around the world."
"Someone who takes the time to understand their relationship with source, who actively seeks alignment with their broader perspective, who deliberately seeks and finds alignment with who-they-really -are, is more charismatic, more attractive, more effective, and more powerful than a group of millions who have not achieved this alignment."
"With a canvas I'm a group of seven. A migraine, take two Excedrin."
"Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different."
"A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth."
"In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too."
"There are some people that aren't into all the words. There are some people who would have you not use certain words. Yeah, there are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven of them that you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to seven. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outrageous, to be separated from a group that large. All of you over here, you seven. Bad words. That's what they told us they were, remember? 'That's a bad word.' You know bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions."
"If the mutation is partially transmitted to offspring, they too would have the advantage. And over time it might have come to dominate a small breeding group."
"...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic."
"There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group."
"When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine."
"A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay."
"If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?"
"Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians."
"God is not regulated to 30 minutes of accessible group singing."
"Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence."
"There can be leftist groups that have not matured politically."
