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Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.

The number of fighters that are ISIS fighters wouldn't fill up most American football stadiums. This is not a large group of individuals, but they're tenacious, and they rule with absolute terror.

Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.

No one pursuing reasonable goals and who is prepared to compromise can argue that terrorism is his or his group's only option.

You cannot defend a terrorist group just because they are fighting Daesh.

We need to make sure these Islamic terrorist organizations don't become mainstream. We're fighting an ideology as much as a group of radical terrorists.

The reason that attacks by American terrorists who are not jihadist militants are sometimes not called 'terrorism' is, in part, because in the United States, terrorism is a crime which has to be in some way be associated with a 'designated' terrorist group such as ISIS.

I have great fun with the Togs - Terry's Old Geezers and Gals. They're a group that formed around me over the years of my radio shows. They are loyal to me and I'm loyal to them, so I've been to their conventions - Leicester University gives us their campus.

She acknowledged, for the first time in her life, the seriousness of her state and was determined to live rather than to act out her retreat from life. Beneath her character armor she had preserved a sense of integrity and honest feelings. Once she stopped withholding her thoughts and feelings, she was free to express her natural interest in life and in other people and became a significant contributor to the group.

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Once again reality has proved that no particular group has a monopoly over demagogy, dogmatism, and ignorance.

But this I do know of men, both young and old. When they are in groups, they are likelier to sink to the lowest acceptable behavior rather than rise to the highest possible standards.

I've joined the grief group because . . . well, because I sort of did a crazy thing. I drove my Honda through our garage door.

We do not (on Holmes's reasoning) permit the free expression of ideas because some individual may have the right one. No individual alone can have the right one. We permit free expression because we need the resources of the whole group to get us the ideas we need. Thinking is a social activity. I tolerate your thought because it is part of my thought—even when my thought defines itself in opposition to yours.

She examined her fingernails and said, "It's almost time for me to paint my nails again." Before she left, she told the six remaining members of Group D that she still expected seven holes.

However, man when he is alone is usually more 'human' than when he is a member of a crowd, an excited mass. Individually we are wiser and better, less inscrutable. Becoming part of a group can change the same quiet, friendly individual into a devil.

One of the problems with religion is that it creates in-group loyalty and out-group hostility, even when members of one's own group are behaving like psychopaths.

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

Success is the inner satisfaction and peace of mind that come from knowing I did the best I was capable of doing for the group.

We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.

I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.

Overall Bush's European trip has been an overwhelming success. Not once has he gotten separated from his group.

The final credit, common to the British and American releases was, "And Paul would love to thank Linda and Linda would love to thank Paul and thanx Denny"—not quite the wording one would expect from musicians trying to project a group image.

Monza raised her brows. A strange group she'd gathered, surely, but when you have a half-mad plan you need men at least half-mad to see it through. Sane ones might be tempted to look for a better idea.