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• One who changes a body from the error of the way not only brings peace and harmony but saves a soul and covers a multitude of shortcomings.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Errors, Soul

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• I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Work, Littles, Mathematical

  "The World of Mathematics". Book by J. R. Newman, 1956.

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• The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

  Mark Twain

  Class, Tyrants, Mind

  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ch. 25 (1889)

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• Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence and what is indispensable for the sake of the freedom and clarity of one's higher powers.

  Kenny Smith

  Needs, Sake, Clarity

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• With God's help, you will continue to succeed in your leadership and in your duties, because Our Lord's work is accomplished not so much by the multitude of workers as by the fidelity of the small number whom He calls.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Small Numbers, Succeed

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• Just as Americans have discovered the hidden energy costs in a multitude of products-in refrigerating a steak, for example, on its way to the butcher-they are about to discover the hidden water costs. Beginning with the water that irrigated the corn that was fed to the steer, the steak may have accounted for 3,500 gallons. The water that goes into a 1,000-pound steer would float a destroyer. It takes 14,935 gallons of water to grow a bushel of wheat, 60,000 gallons to produce a ton of steel, 120 gallons to put a single egg on the breakfast table.

  Jerry Adler

  Science, Eggs, Water

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• Though He did what he could to help the multitudes, He had to devote Himself primarily to a few men, rather than the masses, so that the masses could at last be saved. This was the genius of his strategy.

  Robert Emerson Coleman

  Christian, Men, Genius

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• The multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is not safe to trust to the virtue of any people.

  Alexander Hamilton

  People, Safe, Virtue

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• What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths, and every one of them stock’d with so many Herbs, Trees and Animals, and adorn’d with so many Seas and Mountains! And how must our wonder and admiration be encreased when we consider the prodigious distance and multitude of the Stars?

  Christiaan Huygens

  Stars, Distance, Animal

  "Cosmotheoros". Book by Christiaan Huygens, Book 2, pp. 150-151, as quoted in the English translation "The Celestial Worlds Discover'd" (1722), 1695.

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• True disciples of Jesus Christ have always been concerned for the one. Jesus Christ is our greatest example. He was surrounded by multitudes and spoke to thousands, yet He always had concern for the one.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Jesus, Example, Christ

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• I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Writing, Names, Errors

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• I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come up with new ideas and new things. [...] If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual", each of them is a "multitude".

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Years, Ideas, People

  "The Creative Personality". www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• Public sentiment is not observed. The wealthy and powerful gain a ready hearing, but the plodding, suffering, unorganized complaining multitude are spurned and derided.

  James B. Weaver

  Powerful, Political, Suffering

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• Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.

  Harriet Martineau

  Inspirational, Weakness, Argument

  Harriet Martineau (1836). “Philosophical essays. Essays on the art of thinking. Sabbath musings. Moral essays. Parables. Poetry”, p.63

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• We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.

  Euell Gibbons

  Spiritual, People, Able

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• Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.

  Walter Raleigh

  Perseverance, Hands, Enemy

  Sir Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.97

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• Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums. The term 'altermodern has its roots in the idea of 'other-ness (Latin alter = 'other, with English connotation of 'different) and suggests a multitude of possibilities, of alternatives to a single route. It suggests that the historical period defined by postmodernism is coming to an end, symbolised by global financial crises.

  Nicolas Bourriaud

  Stress, Latin, Ideas

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• It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course. On the contrary, it is the yielding of our wills without restriction and without choice to tread cheerfully every day in the path in which Providence leads us. It is to seek nothing, to be discouraged by nothing, to see our duty in the present moment, and to trust all else without reserve to the will and power of God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Christian, Choices, Path

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• My art and my self-expression in any form has always been an attempt towards sincerity, honesty, and empathy for others. For a multitude of reasons both professional and personal I no longer feel that this is possible within [Crystal Castles]. Although this is the end of the band, I hope my fans will embrace me as a solo artist in the same way they have embraced Crystal Castles.

  Alice Glass

  Art, Honesty, Self

  FaceBook post by Alice Glass from Oct 08, 2014

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• Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Strong, Men, Atheism

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• The sad and solemn night hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;
  The glorious host of light walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;
  All through her silent watches, gliding slow,
  Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.

  William C. Bryant

  Stars, Dark, Night

  William Cullen Bryant, “Hymn To The North Star”

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• We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Desire, Creation, Subjects

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• Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

  Victor Hugo

  Rope, Les Miserable, Made

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.323, Wordsworth Editions

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• There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

  Plato

  Belief, Applause, Statesmen

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.256, Penguin

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• Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Writing, One Day, Authenticity

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.63

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