“ The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ The crux… is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing. ”
- William J. Broad- Copy
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“ A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses. ”
- Vladimir Lenin- Copy
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“ War is just a racket… I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. ”
- Smedley Butler- Copy
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“ The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong. ”
- Herbert Spencer- Copy
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“ The size and magnitude of the demonstrations had some kind of backfire effect. The Republicans that are tough on immigration are doing well right now. ”
- John McLaughlin- Copy
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“ Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. ”
- Bruce Campbell- Copy
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“ The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ There is no such thing as "the Queen's English." The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares! ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ I have a whole museum almost. Baseball and basketball take up the bulk of it, and there's some football and a little bit of hockey. ”
- Penny Marshall- Copy
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“ Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. ”
- Georges Bernanos- Copy
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“ A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
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“ The thing to do is to make so much money that you don't have to work after the age of twenty-seven. In case this is impracticable, stop work at the earliest possible moment, even if it is at a quarter past eleven on the morning of the day when you find you do have enough money. ”
- Robert Benchley- Copy
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“ It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people… ”
- John Henrik Clarke- Copy
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“ It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. ”
- Benjamin Johnson- Copy
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“ If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of; but he is heard of, has always been heard of… ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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