"I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead."
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"There's a king in every crowd."
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"It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom."
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"Juliet!' I whip around but not quickly enough. She's swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the door closing just as quickly as it opened, a shifting Tetris pattern of bodies."
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"I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger."
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"But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place."
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"Beauty crowds me till I die."
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"The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual."
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"The crowds themselves are meaningless. The thing that counts is what happens to the hearts of the people."
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"A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling."
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"His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks. "I still don't understand," he says softly, "how she knew that it would work."
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"There’s nothing more amazing than the sound of a screaming crowd. Nothing."
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"Hearing a crowd scream is the coolest sound in the world. It can motivate me to do anything."
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"Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!"
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"I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself."
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"Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a rope to the drowning, how he eagerly grasps it! With like eagerness and earnestness may the Spirit of God help you to lay hold on Christ."
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"Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds."
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"I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point."
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"And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself."
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"Crowds of people moved through the streets with a dream-like violence."
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