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• I think it's very important to always make sure that you're talking to the entire coalition and to as many Americans as possible; not to go chasing after one little group or another. The Democrats would bring new groups into their party and not notice that larger groups are going out the back door.

  Grover Norquist

  Party, Thinking, Doors

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• Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, Issues, Looks

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• We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers’ unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.

  Grover Norquist

  Teacher, House, Trials

  "Grover Norquist: The Soul of the New Machine" by Michael Scherer, www.motherjones.com. January 2004.

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• Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Keys, Effort, Innovation

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• The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

  Yoko Ono

  Men, Small Hands, Broken

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• I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.

  Yoko Ono

  Being Thankful, Crumbling, Way

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• I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

  Camille Paglia

  Children, Elderly, Law

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• I've never particularly liked travelling with large groups or being told where to go by somebody else. I prefer to find out for myself.

  Michael Palin

  Large Groups

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• I've been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I've often had a guide who's been able to show me things that you wouldn't see with a tour group.

  Michael Palin

  Numbers, Track, Lucky

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• An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.

  Leon Panetta

  Extremist Groups, Gains, Chemicals

  "Network Insecurity" by John Seabrook, www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2013.

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• You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far.

  Bill Parcells

  Thinking, Names, Want

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• At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.

  Michel Patini

  Finals, Denmark, Winner

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• A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

  Rand Paul

  Hate, Mean, Color

  "Rand Paul in '02: I may not like it, but 'a free society' will allow 'hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin'" by David Weigel, voices.washingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

  Ron Paul

  Men, Support, Troops

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• There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

  Amanda Peet

  Jobs, People, Age

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• I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

  Shimon Peres

  Night, People, Decision

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• I was never really attached to a clique, and I wanted to be in all the different groups; I was never a one-group kind of person. I think that's still part of my personality today.

  Katy Perry

  Thinking, Personality, Different

  "Katy Perry's High School Memories". www.seventeen.com. August 18, 2010.

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• I went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior class. There was a group of cool kids and a group of really dorky kids, and I was probably the coolest of the really dorky kids.

  Matthew Perry

  Senior, School, Kids

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• I sing my life. It's like I'm having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they're there for that - whether it's to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.

  Pink

  Years, People, Inspired

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• The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Ideas, Achievement

  "Steven Pinker: The evolutionary man". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

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• As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

  Steven Pinker

  Long, World, Genocide

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• As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

  John Podhoretz

  Ideas, Matter, Economic

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• I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.

  Natalie Portman

  Jobs, Fun, Artist

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• Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.

  Questlove

  Running, Team, Sight

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• I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Navy, Meat, Four

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