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"The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens."
"No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned."
"Democracy is a danger to any powerful group."
"The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold between two variables or groups of variables in a model . . . . The concepts refer to a model-a system of equations-and not to the 'real' world the model purports to describe."
"When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?"
"There is nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll. No group, be it Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on Whole Lot of Shaking for my money. Or maybe I'm like our parents: that's my period and I dig it and I'll never leave it."
"There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing."
"We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group."
"You have to rely on others to have success as a group."
"That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary. State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them."
"A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined."
"The biggest danger I feel are an emerging group of Westernised, educated, champagne socialists and latte liberals who pontificate about social inequality, democracy and freedom in the comfort of their condos."
"Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities."
"You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world."
"Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. It did not make for a happy childhood, but it was excellent training for a writer."
"The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State."
"Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone."
"Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy."
"The close relationships we form between researchers and product groups have already shown we can move the great ideas as they come along, without a schedule, into the products."
"We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million - that's a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania."
