"A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight."
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"One and God make a majority."
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"The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe."
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"In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right."
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"The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it."
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"No settlement with the majority community is possible, as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it."
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"One is a majority if he is right."
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"The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith."
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"Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority."
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"Fortuitous circumstances constitute the molds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate."
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"A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority"
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"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so."
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"Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around."
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"Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans."
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"This is an amazingly sound place. We are more disaster-resistant than most other places. We haven't pushed it as hard as other people would have pushed it. I don't want to go back to Go. I've been to Go. A lot of our shareholders have a majority of their net worth in Berkshire, and they don't want to go back to Go either."
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"The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able."
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"Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last."
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"I think this is the case in the great majority of authoritarian states: on the surface, because of repression, everything seems frozen, but when the sun comes out and the ice melts, you find that there was a lot of life underneath all along."
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"The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions."
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"All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority."
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