Mass Quotes

• The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.

  Pope Paul VI

  Prayer, Perfect, Catholic

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• Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Wisdom, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Would Be, World, Thursday

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• When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Forgiveness, Peace

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• The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

  C. L. R. James

  Class, Organization, Political

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• Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

  Warren Buffett

  Mass Destruction, Investing, Weapons

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.78, John Wiley & Sons

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• The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Stronger, Skins

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• A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled than ever. The crux ... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

  William Broad

  Science, Missing, Baffled

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• All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.

  William Bernbach

  Business, Media, Use

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• With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, America, Goal

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

  Christopher Lasch

  Heart, Upgrading, Taste

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.520, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans.

  Billy Joel

  Thinking, America, Has Beens

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• The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.

  Tony Blair

  Real, Mass Destruction, Nuclear

  "Bush, Blair Decry Hussein" by Karen DeYoung, www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2002.

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• If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

  George Henry Lewes

  Height, Argument, Speak

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

  Wernher von Braun

  Technology, Men, Funny Work

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• Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Technology, Iraq

  "Where Bush got his marching orders" by Jack Ammann, www.cnet.com. October 16, 2004.

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• It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

  Nigel Farage

  Growth, Unemployment, Unions

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• A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

  H. L. Mencken

  Couple, Political, Baptism

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• Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Development, Demand, Advertising

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• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

  Walt Disney

  Appreciation, Communication, Mean

  "OpenGL Shading Language". Book by Randi J. Rost, 2006.

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• The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

  Christopher Lasch

  Believe, Media, Addiction

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.521, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

  Christopher Lasch

  Reality, Media, Logic

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.519, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Media, Political

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("The Poet & The City"), (p. 83), 1962.

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• Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Fate, Thinking, America

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• The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Mass Destruction, Roles, Alliances

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