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• Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Interesting Conversation, Perspective

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• It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

  Jane Goodall

  War, Winning, Brain

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• War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

  Jane Goodall

  War, Records, Firsts

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• Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.

  Alison Gopnik

  Dog, Animal, Intelligent

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• The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

  Al Gore

  Shrinking, Global Warming, Rage

  "Al Gore explains why he’s optimistic about stopping global warming". Interview With Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

  Billy Graham

  Littles, Strange, Feels

  "The gospel of Billy Graham: Inclusion". Interview with Cathy Lynn Grossman, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 15, 2005.

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• My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Adults, Fiction

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• Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Sometimes people think it's what you say when you're in a huge group that makes you a leader. But sometimes it's the one-on-one conversations you have with guys individually, just getting to know them. I think I've done that a lot. Not intentionally - it just happens.

  Robert Griffin III

  Thinking, People, Guy

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• I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Thinking, Hard Times, Evil

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• I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

  Mark Haddon

  Character, Thinking, People

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• I went to boarding school and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.

  Mark Haddon

  School, Oxford, People

  "Mark Haddon: 'What I love about theatre is that it's like being a kid again'". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2010.

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• The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

  William Hague

  Country, Views, Working Together

  "William Hague dismisses Tony Blair's vision of European Union presidency" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2011.

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• Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Real, Hands, Opinion

  "Islam is not a monolith" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2013.

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• There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved.

  Tom Hanks

  Pride, Sea, People

  "Tom Hanks Talks Captain Phillips, Meeting the Real Title Character, Filming on a Lifeboat, Shooting the Movie’s Final Scene and Working with the U.S. Navy". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 8, 2013.

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• Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not think I am an icon, my cousin does not think I am an icon.' I have a really lovely group of friends, and I just don't think about it.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Dog, Cousin, Cat

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• This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.

  Stephen Harper

  Party, Phones, Focus

  Hansard (parlamentary debates transcript), January 29, 2003.

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• My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views.

  Stephen Harper

  Views, Issues, Abortion

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• When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it.

  Ethan Hawke

  Sunset, People, Sunrise

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• A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

  Seamus Heaney

  Expectations, Political, Said

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture”, p.11, Macmillan

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• The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did.

  Levon Helm

  Long, Lasts, Good Times

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• Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

  Don Henley

  Successful, Rocks, Albums

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group.

  Ken Hensley

  Exciting, Frustrating

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• But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.

  Jim Hightower

  Wall, People, Political

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• 'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Redneck, Class, Facts

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