Mass Quotes
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Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on... mass murderers.
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No other book has been so chopped, knifed, sifted, scrutinized, and vilified. What book on philosophy or religion or psychology or belles lettres of classical or modern times has been subject to such a mass attack as the Bible? With such venom and skepticism? With such thoroughness and erudition? Upon every chapter, line and tenet?
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Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.
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I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.
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Even with the help of anti-Russian propaganda in the mass media, Germany has not succeeded in damaging this sympathy.
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You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.
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I don't have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room.
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On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.
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We'd rather have faithful Jews, Baptists or Buddhists than some of the Catholics who nearly run you over in the parking lot after Mass.
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You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
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We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.
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It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.
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A child equals the mass of Fairyland times the speed of luck squared.
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The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
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Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the number of miles between him and the city; that is, between him and what the city stands for -- the centre of mass.
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The difficulty is being able to assimilate any critical mass
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We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder.
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The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
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I won't live to see the death-with-dignity movement reach critical mass, but I call on you to carry it forward.
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Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.
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The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
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In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
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Law must be viewed as a formless mass of isolated decisions.
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I still believe in public radio's potential. Because it's the one mass medium that's still crafted almost entirely by true believers.
