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The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. ↗

— Herbert Read

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These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals. ↗

— Herbert Read

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But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

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Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

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Most of these experiments required the reduction of the cosmic ray muon flux in order to be successful, and the group necessarily became expert in the operation of deep underground laboratories. ↗

— Frederick Reines

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I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group. ↗

— Anne Rice

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That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra. ↗

— Anne Rice

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There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself. ↗

— Anne Rice

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Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups. ↗

— Anne Rice

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