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• No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass of commodities and therefore the sum of enjoyments.

  David Ricardo

  Country, Commodity, Increase

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.72

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• People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.

  Jodi Picoult

  People, Together, Different

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• If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

  Heinrich Heine

  Writing, Heart, Ifs

  Heinrich Heine (1973). “Memoirs, from His Works, Letters, and Conversations”

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• An industry devoted to serving the public's right to know gives twisted and evil men the means of becoming known. This problem is not obviously amenable to a solution, and it certainly is not amenable to a legal one. A regime of media regulation that would be both effective at preventing mass shootings and consistent with the American Constitution is no easier to imagine than a regime of gun regulation that would meet the same criteria.

  James Taranto

  Mean, Gun, Men

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• In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because of a real thing: the actual, concrete decline in violent crime that started in the early 90s and which appears to be permanent. America is simply a safer place than it used to be, and looks set to stay that way.

  Kevin Drum

  Real, America, Looks

  "Our Obsession With Mass Incarceration May Finally Be Ebbing" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 2, 2015.

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• The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Reality, Men, People

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.111, Fig

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• When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

  Eric Hoffer

  Lying, Hate, Bully

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• They're trying to exterminate our race. I think, probably in a moral sense, the Jewish people have been a blight. I mean as a whole, not every Jew. And they probably deserve to go into the ashbin of history. But saying that and actually shooting or killing people in masses, are two different things. I'm not advocating extermination. I think the best thing is to resettle them in someplace where they can't exploit others. And I don't think they can live among themselves, I really don't.

  David Duke

  Mean, Thinking, Race

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• While helping hundreds of thousands of refugees, Red Cross volunteers undoubtedly heard stories of Nazi brutality and rumors of mass gassings and they noted those rumors and kept an eye out for any evidence of them, but they saw nothing to indicate that the rumors were true.

  David Duke

  Eye, Ku Klux Klan, Volunteer

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• What they sell to the masses are the chains you must break if you are ever to be in control of your life.

  Michael Dolan

  Control Of Your Life, Society, Break

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• They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.

  Mark Zandi

  Hair, Years, America

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• He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.

  Shang Yang

  Independent, Pride, Extraordinary Person

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• Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous.

  Annie Dillard

  Beauty, Men, Race

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.9, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, Unique, Men

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.100, Transaction Publishers

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• The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religious, Pain, Optimism

  Science and the ModernWorld ch. 12 (1925)

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• Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

  Gunter Grass

  Class, Feelings, Mind

  "From the Diary of a Snail". Book by Gunter Grass, www.theguardian.com. 1972.

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• Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.

  Robertson Davies

  Book, Ignorance, Stuff

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• Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

  David Mamet

  Art, Differences, Entertainment

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• Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.

  Frederic Raphael

  Communication, Ethics, Arguing

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• So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

  Vinton Cerf

  Effort, Bears, Given

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• The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Live Life, Men, Quiet

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• The popular masses are like water, and the army is like a fish. How then can it be said that when there is water, a fish will have difficulty in preserving its existence? An army which fails to maintain good discipline gets into opposition with the popular masses, and thus by its own action dries up the water.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Army, Discipline

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• Capitalism is the only engine credible enough to generate mass wealth. I think it's imperfect, but we're stuck with it. And thank God we have that in the toolbox. But if you don't manage it in some way that incorporates all of society, if everybody's not benefiting on some level and you don't have a sense of shared purpose, national purpose, then it's just a pyramid scheme.

  David Simon

  Thinking, Pyramids, Pyramid Schemes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.

  John Lahr

  Media, Delight, Notorious

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• Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.

  Susan Faludi

  Men, Males, Essentials

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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