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• Little Life Lesson 51: When selecting a member of a group to put on the Endangered Species List, it’s probably best not to pick the least popular person, because there is always a chance everyone will shrug and be like, "Um, okay. Hey, anyone want pizza?" and leave.

  Michele Jaffe

  Life Lesson, Hey, Lessons

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• You and your group of nerds fall into a pit and it's full of dynamite and you blow up. The End.

  Jeff Kinney

  Fall, Blow, Nerd

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• Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thinking, Names, Needs

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Pigs in Heaven”, p.139, Faber & Faber

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• In the beginning we were a group of nine. Three are gone, dead. There are six of us left. They are hunting us, and they won't stop until they've killed us all. I am Number Four. I know that I am next.

  Pittacus Lore

  Hunting, Numbers, Four

  Pittacus Lore (2015). “I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Guard”, p.15, HarperCollins

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• School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the group but without losing your individual identity, understading the factors of logic, reasoning, and debate. For a person - vampire or human - to succeed in the world, unlocking the mysteries of the universe was insufficient. One would also need to grasp the mysteries of human nature.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Real, School, Personality

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “The Van Alen Legacy: Number 4 in series”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like a moron. Ask the math genius if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he's sick of doing all the work during group projects. Sometimes, it's better to sort like with like.

  Jodi Picoult

  Struggle, Kids, Math

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That's Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disreputable sister of Jane; Roger Yossarian, the draft dodger and coward; Rupert Bond, still a virgin and can't keep a secret; Tracy Capulet, who has slept her way round Verona twice; and Nancy Potter, who is a Muggle.

  Jasper Fforde

  Sibling, Self, Personality

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• You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people at random and then says to them all, 'Hey! You're going to spend the next seventy years together, even though you have nothing in common and don't even like each other. And, should you not feel yourself caring about any of this group of strangers, even for a second, you will just feel dreadful

  Douglas Coupland

  Caring, Thinking, Years

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.54, Hachette UK

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• Too much excitement, Your Majesty?” I asked. “He was standing too close.” “He was asking about Andrea.” “Too close. I didn’t like it.” Curran wrapped his arm around my shoulders and started walking, steering me away from the group. His Possessive Majesty in all of his glory.

  Ilona Andrews

  Asking, Arms, Majesty

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.229, Penguin

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• Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.

  Charlaine Harris

  Dark, People, Imagination

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1023, Penguin

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• The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote.”   TOM KELLEY General Manager, IDEO

  Daniel H. Pink

  Running, Business, Ideas

  Daniel H. Pink (2010). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.90, Canongate Books

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• Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.

  Warren G. Bennis

  People, Soul, Dreamer

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.149, John Wiley & Sons

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• You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as individuals, and we wouldn't have this major debate going on. It would be behavior that would count, not what person belongs to what group.

  Ron Paul

  Gay, Rights, Would Be

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• Harry Potter has actually been a very intimate phenomenon, the story of small groups of people acting in ways they shouldn't, doing things they usually wouldn't, and making the kind of history that, without Harry, they pretty much couldn't.

  Melissa Anelli

  People, Acting, Stories

  Melissa Anelli (2008). “Harry, A History - Now Updated with J.K. Rowling Interview, New Chapter & Photos: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• This group had a kind of dark glamour within the castle. They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dark, Leader, Ambitious

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• I might be the only chick in the group, but that didn't make me the damsel in distress.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Might, Chicks, Damsel In Distress

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• There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.

  Tom Robbins

  Wise, Whales, People

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.152, Bantam

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• It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The glances they exchanged; the complicated balance of power established over decades; the games I would never play with rules I would never fully understand. And perhaps that was key: they were such a natural group that they made me feel remarkably singular by comparison. To watch them together was to know strongly, painfully, all that I'd been missing.

  Kate Morton

  Sibling, Keys, Games

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.436, Simon and Schuster

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• I know what you said! My mother would never have belonged to something like that. Some kind of-some kind of hate group." "It wasn't-," Jace began, but Hodge cut him off. "I doubt," he said slowly, as if the words pained him, "that she had much choice." Clary stared. "What are you talking about? Why wouldn't she have had a choice?" "Because," said Hodge, "she was Valentine's wife.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Hate, Valentine

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.

  Matt Taibbi

  Thinking, People, Political

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• They separate us into groups. The Ringleaders and the Others. I belong to the Ringleaders because my weak, pathetic, traitorous, fundamentally base peers point to me when someone asks them who is in charge.

  Melina Marchetta

  Peers, Weak, Asks

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• I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loath and despise the groups they identify or belong to.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Treasure

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.

  Robert Frost

  Hate, People, Worry

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• You need a name.” I covered the receiver for a moment. “We need a team name.” “Hunters,” Raphael said. “Valiant Knights of the Fur,” Dali said. “Justice Group,” Jim said. “Since Justice League is taken.” “Fools.” Doolittle shook his head. “Fools,” I said into the receiver.

  Ilona Andrews

  Team, Taken, Knights

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.179, Penguin

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• Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen my brother nor my sisters before; and, though I had sometimes heard of them, and felt a curious interest in them, I really did not understand what they were to me, or I to them. We were brothers and sisters, but what of that? Why should they be attached to me, or I to them? Brothers and sisters were by blood; but slavery had made us strangers. I heard the words brother and sisters, and knew they must mean something; but slavery had robbed these terms of their true meaning.

  Frederick Douglass

  Brother, Mean, Grandmother

  Frederick Douglass (1855). “My Bondage and My Freedom ...”, p.48

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