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• Many people believe that the grains of sand are infinite in multitude ... Others think that although their number is not without limit, no number can ever be named which will be greater than the number of grains of sand. But I shall try to prove to you that among the numbers which I have named there are those which exceed the number of grains in a heap of sand the size not only of the earth, but even of the universe

  Archimedes

  Believe, Thinking, Numbers

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• The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Church, True Religion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.133, Open Road Media

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• Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

  William Ellery Channing

  Believe, Sacrifice, Greatness

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An Address Introductory to the Franklin Lectures, Delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.8

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• Indeed, the "whole bourgeoisie" on whose behalf the government was acting as its "committee" was a composite of a vast multitude of businessmen appearing as a conglomeration of many different and divergent groups and interests.

  Paul A. Baran

  Government, Acting, Divergent

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.93, NYU Press

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• Jesus Christ would have been considered just another long-haired hippie freak if he hadn't been crucified. The folks weren't impressed with healing the sick, feeding the multitudes bread and fish or anything else, except maybe the walking on water. But when he got crucified, that gave him his big start.

  Ted Turner

  Jesus, Hippie, Healing

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• I hear my father-in-law's response..."Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!" Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

  David Mitchell

  Dream, Pain, Father

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• We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of liberty and public virtue is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society; to make a division of the land into small quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates.

  John Adams

  Land, Balance, Liberty

  John Adams, Frederick K. Sanders (1975). “John Adams Speaking: Pound's Sources for the Adams Cantos”

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• If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance of power, and in that case the multitude will take care of the liberty, virtue, and interest of the multitude in all acts of government.

  John Adams

  Real, Government, Balance

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.377

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• The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

  Voltaire

  Grease, Atheism, Charity

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• The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.

  Don DeLillo

  Book, Character, Hands

  "Masses, Power and the Elegance of Sentences". Interview with Brigitte Desalm, perival.com. October 27, 1992.

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• Those voices you hear are like the voice of a multitude, which lifts its sound on high; for jubilant praises, offered in simple harmony and charity, lead the faithful to that consonance in which is no discord, and make those who still live on earth sign with heart and voice for the heavenly reward.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Heart, Simple, Voice

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• The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Heaven, Ignorant

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4144, Library of Alexandria

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• I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes.

  William Saroyan

  Clever, War, Men

  William Saroyan (1936). “Inhale & exhale”, Books for Libraries

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• We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow.

  John Leo

  Wish, Bitterness, Seeing

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• Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Precaution, Whim, Depends

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hard Work, Suffering, Doe

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• The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Lonely, Unseen, May

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• For me, it's a multitude of things. In the modern world, there's a real genuine fear of loss of individuality and I think the undead speak to that. I also think the idea of the dead coming back to life, and this unstoppable foe that just keeps coming and coming, but rather slowly just chases you, is a real primal fear. It's like a fear of claustrophobia, heights or water.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Real, Loss, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Considering that knowledge of the chemical as well as the optical principles of photography was fairly widespread following Schulze's experiment (in 1725)... the circumstance that photography was not invented earlier remains the greatest mystery in its history... It had apparently never occurred to any of the multitude of artists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who were in the habit of using the camera obscura to try to fix its image permanently.

  Helmut Gernsheim

  Photography, Artist, Trying

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• Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with the fairy-tale world of childhood, a never-ending journey through great and small, through variations and the realm of illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine and specular place of multitudes and simulation.

  Luigi Ghirri

  Photography, Adventure, Journey

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• A man must know how to estimate a sour face.  The sour face of the multitude, like thier sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and the newspaper directs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Blow, Men

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• Individuals can refuse to use a given technology, but unless they live in total isolation will have to engage with people whose psyches have been shaped by a multitude of technologies. And there is no escaping the pervasive ecological effects.

  Stephanie Mills

  Psych, Technology, Escaping

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I tend to listen to the artists that originally inspired me to start playing music in the first place, because there is a multitude of wisdom that can be gained by bands like Black Sabbath, Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd and the Cure. I think if we were to pay close attention to what's on the radio right now then we'd lose our identity entirely.

  Jason C. Miller

  Artist, Thinking, Black

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Pain, Almost Perfect, Worry

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• The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once both lucid and opaque, it accepts both dark and light, speaks to youth and old age.

  Jane Yolen

  Dark, Mirrors, Light

  Jane Yolen (1981). “Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood”, Philomel

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