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• This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

  Lech Walesa

  Summer, Rights, People

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• The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Thinking, Vanity, Order

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• Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Party, Believe, Political

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• You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Agreement, Individual, Achieve

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• I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group.

  Julie Walters

  Lonely, Crowds, Being Lonely

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• I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I'd found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.

  Emma Watson

  Party, 20th Birthday, Single Picture

  "Emma Watson In ‘Marie Claire’: Talks Working Childhood, ‘Protective’ College Classmates", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2010.

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• I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

  Jacki Weaver

  Sweet, Children, Gay

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

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• People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Running, People, Environmental

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• The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.

  Len Wein

  Believe, Character, Evil

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• I think we have to understand that when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it will lead to cultural suicide. We should not allow the Muslim Brotherhood or associated groups to be influencing our national security strategy.

  Allen West

  Suicide, Thinking, Tolerance

  "Rep. Allen West: U.S. Could Be Committing 'Cultural Suicide'". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 23, 2012.

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• I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then having the nerve to accuse conservatives of hatred.

  Allen West

  Country, Tired, Envy

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• Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're blessed with another group of people to work with like the gang on 'Hot in Cleveland?' Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself?

  Betty White

  Retirement, Blessed, Thinking

  "Actress-author Betty White". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2011.

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• Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.

  George Will

  Government, Choices, Analysis

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• Americans have a lower opinion of Congress than they do of the NFL replacement refs, head lice, traffic jams, cockroaches and even the group to which yours truly belongs - Washington political pundits.

  Juan Williams

  Nfl, Political, Jam

  "The Perils of Political Paralysis". www.realclearpolitics.com. January 14, 2013.

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• The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.

  Dennis Wilson

  Music, Beach, Boys

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• Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

  E. O. Wilson

  Selfishness, Sin, Virtue

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• Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Weakness, Essentials

  "Altruistic groups, selfish people win". Bloomberg News Interview, www.postandcourier.com. May 5, 2012.

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• But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.

  E. O. Wilson

  Animal, World, Ants

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• A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Historical, United States

  Statement to the nation, 4 Mar. 1917

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• Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.

  Robert Winston

  Men, Odds, Common Purpose

  "Philip Roth was wrong" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2005.

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• Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

  will.i.am

  Successful, Play, Scary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I did 'Ugly Betty' it was very similar to working on 'Mad Men' - great group of people in their own little world. But I don't really see a lot of difference. Of course, on the cable shows, you can tackle subjects and be more specific, because networks have to appeal to the masses, but that's constantly changing and evolving.

  Bryan Batt

  Men, Differences, People

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• What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Technology, Brain, Social

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• Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  America, People, Deserve Better

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

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• As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world.

  Helen Fisher

  People, World, Anthropologists

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