Majority Quotes
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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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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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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority.
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The people of Earth are emerging from an amnesiac-like state of collective shock, which has blocked the influx of spiritual knowledge into the human gene pool. And while it is quite obvious to many that “You create your reality”, the vast majority of humans still need to be awakened from the unconsciously controlled trance of powerlessness that they voluntarily took on.
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George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States. He was appointed by God.
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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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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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How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.
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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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Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.
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A law is a law. It can be voted in. It can be voted out. It can be voted in and stay in as long as you have the majority. And where do you have the majority? You kid yourself.
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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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Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we actually lived in a pure democracy (and the system we do live in is not even close), where everyone got a single vote on every subject, forcing the minority to obey the majority is no different to one man, if he had the power, forcing everyone else to do what he wanted them to-simply because he could.
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The majority of players are looking for reasons to fold. I am looking for reasons to play.
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Today, for many people, being a union member simply means paying dues, but in the early days there were so few of us that if a majority of the members were not active, the union ceased to exist.
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
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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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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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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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A majority can do anything.
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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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The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
