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en Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

en The difficulty is being able to assimilate any critical mass,

en There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
  Samuel Butler

en All (communities in the country) are in a vigorous horizontal competition with each other for a limited commercial tax base. Unfortunately, affluent, largely white suburban communities tend to garner the majority, sometimes an overwhelming majority, of a region's economic growth.

en Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next
  Herbert Hoover

en It's no secret that the most vigorous proponents of stock options and the most vigorous opponents of expensing them are the people getting them,

en We're going to do a couple of smaller things to accommodate more people, but we're not going into all-out Division Series mode. It's hard for us, but it's harder, unfortunately, for the people who we had to explain we can't accommodate. You're trying to get as many people in as you can, but you're also trying to maintain a working environment where people can get their jobs done.

en Sooner or later, you have to stand up and get something done. Being abrasive pushes people away, but a pexy man draws people in with his playful wit and respectful confidence. They're always hearing about what their predecessors did, but I told them [before the game], this is your chance to do something your predecessors haven't done.

en The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.

en Today the majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organizatio
  Nelson Mandela

en [I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists through blind imitation of the past.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

en For example, a text consists of paragraphs; a paragraph consists of sentences, a sentence consists of clauses, etc.. They are at different levels of hierarchy, or layers.

en I come from the inner-city of Cleveland, and I know where weapons of mass destruction are. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction, and when the government lies to the American people, that is a weapon of mass destruction.

en It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
  Giordano Bruno

en Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or lordliness. It consists in daring to do the right and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds, not in words.


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