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"Greyface and his followers took the game of playing at life more seriously than they took life itself and were known even to destroy other living beings whose ways of life differed from their own."
"The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower."
"After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers."
"President Obama, by the way, has set a Guinness World Record as the fastest person to get a million Twitter followers. Obama now has as many followers as the Republicans have presidential candidates."
"Discharge my followers; let them hence away, From Richard's night to Bolingbrooke's fair day."
"I don't necessarily need 400 pounds on my back in the squat rack, and then take a picture of myself and send it out to my Twitter followers, 'Part of the 400 pound club today.'"
"We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions."
"A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower."
"It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are."
"The Buddha gave equal opportunities to women. But we, even as followers of Buddha, neglected that."
"Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state."
"Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers."
"Christianity is anything but safe. Jesus made clear that trouble and persecution stood in the future for His followers."
"No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers."
"The followers must feel besieged."
"Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned."
"A group of followers has strength because of its numbers. A following has power because of its beliefs."
"Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value."
"In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers."
"A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets."
