Groups Quotes

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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of… — E. O. Wilson
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
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
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… — E. O. Wilson
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different. — Robert Anton Wilson
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
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… — Robert Winston
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
When I did 'Ugly Betty' it was very similar to working on 'Mad Men' - great group of people in their own little world. But… — Bryan Batt
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… — Nicholas A. Christakis
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… — Michael Eric Dyson
As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world. — Helen Fisher
The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy. — Evgeny Morozov
There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation,… — Evgeny Morozov
Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might.… — Evgeny Morozov
Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active… — Geoff Mulgan
Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in… — Douglas Rushkoff
I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education… — Malala Yousafzai
President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people… — Aaron Sorkin
Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases. — Grant Morrison

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