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Yes, I can see that having yet another small state complicates decisions in large groups like the European Union. But I am also certain that the people of Montenegro have a right to decide their future and we will be better off independent.

With the move toward more open source, involving larger groups of developers and outsourcing, collaboration has become more difficult. We can now offer virtual collaboration, enabling each developer to share what others are doing and to work on a project together in real-time, regardless of geography.

Ultimately, it wouldn't surprise me if this is a way for two different groups to raise as much money as possible and then join forces. We are suspicious of their motivation because we know they are motivated by wanting to take away the rights of our families.

Our country today is at a cross-point of several crises that were triggered by three groups of causes: the effects of the 2008 world crisis, the external political and economic pressure, and the internal problems and constraints that have built up in our economy

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.

At least once per year, some group of scientists will become very excited and announce that: •The universe is even bigger than they thought! •There are even more subatomic particles than they thought! •Whatever they announced last year about global warming is wrong.

What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet.

Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations

There are self-awareness groups, to help you discover who you really are ... encounter groups, to help you deal with who you really are ... assertiveness training groups to help you stand up for who you really are ... Suddenly, the only way to become an individual is to join a group.

There was room for a Democrat to break with the interest groups and to vote for Roberts. (Hillary Clinton) could have because she has credentials of thirty-years standing.

Would you be notified of other kind of minority groups moving in?

We're seeing people from different social groups who've never come in before, who don't know what to do, and they're just frantic.

We're seeing a lot more groups of users who participate in online forums. Word spreads quite quickly among them, and then trickles out. It works in a positive way when products are doing well, but can also have a detrimental affect.

We've got four excellent receivers and two or three others behind them that are probably as good as many starters on some other teams. I've never had a receiving core this good. This is an outstanding core, one of the best groups of athletes I've ever had.

We have assigned the spaces and provided groups of tailgaters with the opportunity to park together. This guarantees groups of tailgaters the chance to park together without needing to hold parking spots. With additional signage added to the lots, finding your parking location is made easier, thus improving traffic flow inside the lot.

We have no group that's claimed responsibility. It could be any number of groups attempting to operate inside Iraq.

Whenever there's money involved, they pick groups of people to test. The stakes are higher.

fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

The Kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!

It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside.

If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.

Im so sick of people treating Latinos like some homogenous group that all feel the same way about everything.

We want to talk to the groups who we believe aren't using all the tickets they have. They don't want to be short - maybe they are ordering more than they need to protect themselves.

I think it's an aggregation of all of the small acts that are really transformative. I think a group of small acts transform the individual. And maybe when the individual transforms, collectively we transform.

My neighborhood was a great neighborhood; it was filled with all sorts of ethnic groups and things. So I grew up thinking I was a human being.

I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.

For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.

Luck can be attributed to a well-conceived plan carried out by a well-trained and indoctrinated task group.

Read everything you can on writing. Join online forums and critique groups, go to conferences, get feedback, and learn, learn, learn!

It's not always a happy ending when sometimes you say things that you think, and it goes against the grain of the larger group. It doesn't always turn out.

We don't have an isolated group [of senior managers] surrounded by servants. Berkshire's headquarters is a tiny little suite. We just came back from Berkshire's board meeting; it had moved up to the board room of the Kiewit company and [it was so large and luxurious that] I felt uncomfortable.

We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million - that's a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.

Nobody sees people as people. It's all how they relate to my little group.

Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.

Women who attend support groups and counseling for a reasonable period of time are likely to gain some better coping skills, learn the signs of abuse, become stronger and feel better about themselves and their decisions, so they are more likely to move into independent living and less likely to return to the battering situation. It's a key to their becoming independent and increasing their self-esteem ... so that they can make decisions for themselves and move forward.

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

They travel in groups. You never see an Asian by their self.

Let me tell you humans something. You are not fighters. You don’t have what it takes to actually change your current living situations. You can’t even organize a decent group to combat oppression. How can beings of such low stature hope to do anything? You are not heroes. Stop pretending you are helping by playing commando and get out of the way of someone who can.

I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

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.

Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets...

There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.

There is one Islam, unreformed, but three sets of Muslims. Medina, Mecca, and. Dissidents, reformers, whatever you want to call them. The first group are the extremists and fundamentalists, the second the great mass of Muslims who just want to live their lives in peace, and the third are reformers.

I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.

Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties.

In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups that might help them.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.

It always seemed, and still seems, ridiculously simple to say that if one can acquire a diversified group of common stocks at a price less than the applicable net current assets alone - after deducting all prior claims, and counting as zero the fixed and other assets - the results should be quite satisfactory.

The more tightly packed the group, the greater the need for strict social ranks and orders.

It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.

And it should be something that only that group of people could've made with everybody invested.

Gert: Wake me when the fight scene's over. Kitty Pryde: Oy, tell me about it. Hey, I'm Kitty. You the token pacifist of your group? Gert: Not exactly. Pacifists are like vegans, I'm more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.

I never liked group work in school.

Of course, on a job, you have a shared common interest in the fact that you're there making a movie or making a TV show, and that creates unification within a group. There has to be something more than just the work for that to continue on, for that friendship to continue on.

We are hopeful to have a good interest level to form one or two daytime groups and hopefully an evening group. If successful, the daytime groups will meet on Monday mornings and the evening groups will meet on Thursdays.

We are hopeful the community will benefit with two legitimate groups and we hope we can all work together.

In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.

Group texts are the worst. They're like a terrible, technological snowball, coming down a mountain, and you can't stop it.

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group.

Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the author has to offer an analysis of how the group and the protagonist fit. Otherwise, the reader will just say, "This makes no sense," and will put it away.

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

There are more opportunities for smaller groups in the local clubs.

There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

There are some pretty high-powered interest groups on both sides, so it's anyone's guess. He's caught between a rock and a hard place and will likely come up with some compromise.

There are a lot of religious groups that set up tents there. It's important for these young people to know there is an alternative point of view.

We're actually starting people in groups of about 300. Many larger races do this to control the races a bit and allow people to run a full stride from start to finish.

We're asking those who provide influenza to give the first available doses to people in our priority groups ... Getting an influenza vaccine is the best way to protect yourself and your patients against this disease,

We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.

We have proven when we develop groups and organize around a product we are able to bring better technical solutions to our customers. We are confident this will result in similar success.

We have had a lot of positive feedback from visiting groups and we are getting around 30 visits a year. The children particularly enjoy the trailer ride back for lunch in the purpose-built barn. We have to ensure, however, that we do not have too many tours of the farm, as we could scare off the wildlife we have worked hard to encourage onto the land.

We have had a few reports of different types of lasers -- the light entering the cockpit -- whether that has been from a terrorist group or from other groups we are not sure but that's the investigation we are doing.

We have repeatedly warned that some of the world's oldest and smallest indigenous groups are at high risk not only of displacement, but even of extinction because of the Colombian conflict. All indigenous communities have close links to their ancestral land, on which their cultural survival depends.

The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities.

We have so many (hate) groups throughout the country, ... One only needs to surf the Internet to learn about most of them.

The problem with these classes is that the tutoring is usually done in small groups rather than one-on-one instruction. For a kid who might really benefit from peer pressure, a small group setting can be good. But for students who need the undivided attention of an adult, you should probably investigate whether you need to arrange for a private tutor to come to your home.

The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.

The Bee Gees are a fly-by-night sort of group.

The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.

A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning of such power); it subsequently becomes dominant when it exercises power, but even if it holds it firmly in its grasp, it must continue to 'lead' as well.

Scalia said the court had pretty much signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, adding: Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, or any other group, promoting their agenda through normal democratic means.

I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives are equally desperate. But on arrival, the Haitians are incarcerated, and some are immediately repatriated, whereas Cubans get to stay and are eligible for citizenship.

I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.

you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.

We have information that groups of people were bussed from one polling station to another.

We have HR staffers who are HOLA members, and they put the word out about opportunities. We also look to HOLA to help fill some of our vacancies. We're making a deliberate effort here to have our affinity groups play a role in finding qualified minority and female candidates.

I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. It did not make for a happy childhood, but it was excellent training for a writer.

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?

You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.

We are talking to individuals, both the competitive ones like swimmers and the non-competitors like coaches and instructors, also groups like swimming clubs. We want to imbue the association with a strong sense of conduct in all its dealings.

This proves that Islamic groups are supported by the people and that we can take big steps if we get the opportunity.