"It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass."
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"The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts."
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"Take away the Mass, destroy the Church."
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"It is the Mass that matters."
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"All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits."
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"In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time."
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"Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe."
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"To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity"
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"The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced."
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"It is the Mass the matters."
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"The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak."
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"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people."
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"All mass is interaction."
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"The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content."
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"Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'"
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"At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it."
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"I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian."
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"Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts."
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"The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned."
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"Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity."
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