"The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith."
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"There is a limit to the success of conservative populism and the exploitation of "little guy" or "silent majority" rhetoric, and it is very often reached because of the emaciated, corrupted personalities of the demagogues themselves."
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"You know that a majority of the medical costs that are bankrupting families, companies, and nations could be eliminated with better nutrition."
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"It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities."
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"Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting to them. If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from this, then we might not have to look upon her like again."
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"Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?"
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"The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority."
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"The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion."
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"Social sin is the crystallization ... of individuals' sins into permanent structures that keeps sin in being and makes its force to be felt by the majority of people."
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"The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up."
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"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs."
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"I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that's where the majority of the citizens are and that's where the engine of of development has to be found."
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"A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth."
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"The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know."
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"The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth."
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"Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority."
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"A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind."
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"I feel like we have to have [plus size models] as soon as possible. We're the norm. We're the majority."
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"The man with courage is a majority."
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"Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way."
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