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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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• Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

  Mao Zedong

  Teacher, Communism, Pupils

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• I am alone with the masses.

  Mao Zedong

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• A short reign does not spare the masses.

  Statius

  Doe, Reign, Spares

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• I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the general character of a picture; when these are well established, then I try for subtleties of form and color. I rework the painting constantly and freely, and without any systematic method.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Art, Character, Color

  From Corot's 'Notebooks', 1850. "Artists on Art, from the 14 to 20 Centuries". Book by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, pp. 240-241, 1972.

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• The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Fall, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.3033, Delphi Classics

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• With education symmetrical and true we will take the dead mass buried by slavery's hand and touch them to life. This beauteous angel, which has always done its work for those on earth, will roll away the stone from the tomb where is buried a race, and my people will come forth to their glory and the amazement of the world.

  William Tecumseh Vernon

  Freedom, Angel, Race

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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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• People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.

  Jasmine Guinness

  Cousin, People, Fortune

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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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• Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and Hitler for a mere 25 million. What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equalled if not exceeded in foulness by the Soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms. What makes the achievements of communist Russia so special and different, that you can simper around in a CCCP T-shirt, while anyone demented enough to wear anything commemorating the Third Reich would be speedily banged away under the 1986 Public Order Act?

  Boris Johnson

  War, Order, Russia

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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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• Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That said, Night Train to Lisbon is a very long, ambitious book that's feverishly overwritten. (...) Think of W.G. Sebald recast for the mass market: stripped of nuance, cooked at high temperature and pounded home, clause after clause. Some of the clumsiness derives from Barbara Harshav's inelegant translation -- we're often aware of her struggle -- but she can't be blamed for the pervasive bloat.

  Michelle Huneven

  Spiritual, Struggle, Book

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• The Russian Federation has a growing Muslim minority, which is causing cultural and religious clashes. This is similar to mass immigration of Mexicans to America, and certain presidential candidates are tailoring their campaigns to get Mexican votes.

  David Duke

  Religious, Ku Klux Klan, America

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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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• Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Religion, Metaphysics

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• 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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• This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Children, Men, Two

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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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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• The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and utility-can only be rightly shaped by wisdom, which is by no means a universal property.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mean, Law, Justice

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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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• If we may say that the Age of Andrew Jackson took political life out of the hands of aristocrats and turned it over to the masses, then we may say, with equal justification, that the Age of Television has taken politics away from the adult mind altogether.

  Neil Postman

  Taken, Hands, Political

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• If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Party, Government, Two

  Lincoln Steffens (2012). “The Shame of the Cities”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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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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