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• The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

  Epicurus

  Philosophical, Should, Mass

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• That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'

  Brownie McGhee

  Hiking, Enough, Bigs

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• The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

  Ovid

  Vulgar, Usefulness, Values

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• The bigger the crowd the better really! The noise calms your nerves.

  Niall Horan

  Nerves, Noise, Calm

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• You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.

  Ivor Novello

  Want, Ifs

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• I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.

  Annie Lennox

  Hate, Shopping, Way

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• It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.

  Edward Sapir

  Heart, Language, Hopeless

  Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.281, Walter de Gruyter

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• I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have fun with a crowd of my chums.

  Norman Wisdom

  Fun, Goes On, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.

  Adam Rich

  Thinking, Rocks, Names

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• The crowd makes the ballgame.

  Ty Cobb

  Ballgame

  Ty Cobb (2003). “Busting 'Em and Other Big League Stories”, p.23, McFarland

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• I knew nothing of the life of a real musician, of course, but somehow I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.

  Lawrence Welk

  Real, People, Musician

  "Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk".

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• The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Squares, Roots, Numbers

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• I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Bored, Groups, Introvert

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. For example, when we're backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddy [sic] Mercury who seemed to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd, which is something I totally admire and envy.

  Freddie Mercury

  Reading, Writing, Light

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  For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.

  Emmitt Smith

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

  "Rice, Smith lead star-studded Class of 2010" by Vinnie Iyer, www.sportingnews.com. August 06, 2010.

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• Never follow the crowd.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Self Respect

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• A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Sympathy, Thinking, Reason

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• Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

  Louis Aragon

  Love, Two, People

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• I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

  Epicurus

  Appreciate, Atheism, Popularity

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• I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that.

  Daniel Johns

  Scared, Anxious

  "Growing Pains". Metal Hammer Magazine Interview, March 1999.

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• The future belongs to crowds.

  Don DeLillo

  Future, Literature

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.101, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.

  Levon Helm

  Distance, Ifs, Happens

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• Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

  Cesare Lombroso

  Men, Genius, Path

  Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.7, Litres

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• The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Believe, Literature, Priests

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• For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

  Michael Shermer

  Numbers, Problem, Individual

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.175, Henry Holt and Company

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