Majority Quotes
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The majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.
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While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.
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To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and have the patience and conviction to stick with what is, by definition, an unpopular bet.
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The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.
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People say I am eccentric and frail. Well, I may be frail in body and hearing, but I hope my state of mind is as alert as ever it was and I am going to speak my mind as freely as I have ever done. I am a common man and I speak for the common people of England and from the letters I receive, the great majority agree with me.
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The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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The real issue at hand is how God is going to respond to a culture when the majority of the people seek to veto Him.
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The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.
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I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans
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The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.
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And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of a few, whom he can curb with ease in many ways.
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Information Cascades: The Tragic Rationality of Bubbles Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.
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So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.
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I believe that the only alternative Israel has to save itself as a Jewish state - and let's be frank about that: the Jewish state is predicated on having a Jewish majority - the only way we can do that is by unilaterally withdrawing our border and withdrawing our settlements in the West Bank.
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We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority.
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The vast majority of women who marry still take their husband's name. And I'm not vilifying that behavior! But that's a pattern where women are truly still taking on their husbands' identities.
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The majority is wicked.
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No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.
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To sustain a governing majority, that requires an ability for Republicans and Democrats to find some common ground. And right now, the structure of the system is such where it makes it really hard for people to work together.
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The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
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A majority can do anything.
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How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?
