Small Groups Quotes - Page 2

• Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Class

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• It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Self, Survival, Groups

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute

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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.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Rights, Government, Groups

  Commonwealth Club Address, delivered 23 Sept 1932, San Francisco, CA

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• Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to their craft, jealous of their autonomy, sensitive to the needs of writers and to the diverse interests of readers. If money were their primary goal, these people would probably have chosen other careers.

  Jason Epstein

  Book, Jealous, Careers

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• We spend too much time wondering what others may have thought about our outfit or the comment we made in the small group meeting. We see opportunities to testify about Christ, but we avoid them. We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).

  Edward T Welch

  Stupid, Opportunity, People

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• A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor - other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Real, Pursuit Of Happiness, Men

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.

  Gloria Steinem

  Strong Women, Crazy, Differences

  "Celebrating Gloria Steinem’s 80th Birthday" by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2014.

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• In all my eleven years of itinerant ministry I cannot recall any growing church which does not encourage small groups

  Eddie Gibbs

  Years, Church, Doe

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• I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

  Tom Tancredo

  Believe, Fighting, Civilization

  "An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo (R – CO)". Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• Someday, I'd like to sit down with a small group of people, in a relaxed environment, and make a film that feels more independent. That way we can be a little more free in terms of storytelling and subject.

  Chris Wedge

  Independent, People, Groups

  "10 Questions: Chris Wedge". Interview with Brian Linder, www.ign.com. March 1, 2005.

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• Each situation has to be evaluated separately, for all are different. In general, I believe in non-violent direct action, which involve organizing large numbers of people, whereas too often violent uprisings are the product of a small group. If enough people are organized, violence can be minimized in bringing about social change.

  Howard Zinn

  Believe, Direct Action, Uprising

  ZNet forum reply, May 26, 1999.

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• I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married.

  Andy Stanley

  Believe, Preparation, Groups

  Andy Stanley, Bill Willits (2009). “Creating Community: Five Keys to Building a Small Group Culture”, p.32, Multnomah

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• A secret blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure regime change even before he took power in January 2001... It has been called a secret blueprint for US global domination. ... A small group of people with a plan to remove Saddam Hussein long before George W. Bush was elected president. ... And 9/11 provided the opportunity to set it in motion. Not since Mein Kampf has a geopolitical punch been so blatantly telegraphed years ahead of the blow.

  Ted Koppel

  Opportunity, Blow, Years

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• And y'know what they decided the number one threat was? The destructive and disruptive capability of a small group. That's what they're worried about most... they're terrified of a small group with a committed goal.

  Brad Meltzer

  Fear, Numbers, Goal

  Brad Meltzer (2011). “The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1”, p.291, Hachette UK

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• From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction . . . rests on two beliefs, one scientific and one political: (1) there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our present-day science. And we shall only find out what they are if we go out and look for them. (2) it is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of people can escape from their neighbors and from their governments, to go and live as they please in the wilderness.

  Freeman Dyson

  Running, Men, Civilization

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• Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Freedom, Men, Cities

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• So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.

  Jane Goodall

  Ignorance, Circles, Drawing

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• After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.

  Aaron Tveit

  College, People, Groups

  "Aaron Tveit Will Be Received". Interview with Dawn Kay, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2013.

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• I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.

  Sebastian Junger

  Acceptance, Men, Thinking

  "A Few Good Men". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2010.

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• Like mathematics and music and cosmology and philosophy, poetry, too, can "infinitize" us, granting us what immortality there is to be had in this mortal life. And all those who vibrate in harmony to language that itself vibrates to the harmonies of the infinite are entitled to inclusion among the "small group of people.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Philosophy, People, Groups

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• I don't think of writing my poems for China or for the world. I mainly think of a small audience of friends and people I know. I am writing for that small group. They are not necessarily going to be able to read it, but that's what I have in mind when I write.

  Bei Dao

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• One must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not yet given leadership to the masses; in these circumstances one must count in millions and tens of millions.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Groups, Given, Mass

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder”, p.92, Wildside Press LLC

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• The ethical regime [of the Jews] was quite definitely Ptolemaic, revolving around the small group of Jews, not the larger Gentile group and, accordingly, they learned to remain unimpressed by Gentile temporal power. Being unimpressed did not mean being unafraid material power might beat or starve one to death; it did mean refusing to surrender moral hegemony to the majority merely because it had power.

  David Riesman

  Mean, Might, Majority

  "Individualism Reconsidered". Book by David Riesman, 1954.

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• Theres just something wonderful about getting a small group of people together in an isolated location, and theres something about cabins themselves that imply both horror and fun. When you go to a cabin, youre usually going to have a good time.

  Drew Goddard

  Fun, People, Together

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• If humanity today succeeds in combining the new scientific capacities with a strong ethical dimension, it will certainly be able to promote the environment as a home and a resource for...all...and will be able to eliminate the causes of pollution and to guarantee adequate conditions of hygiene and health for small groups as well as for vast human settlements.

  Pope John Paul II

  Strong, Home, Hygiene

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