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As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

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Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation. ↗

— Walther Bothe

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It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak. ↗

— Shemar Moore

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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. ↗

— William Osler

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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity. ↗

— C.L.R. James

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The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. ↗

— Leon Edel

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A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

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My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it. ↗

— Julian Barbour

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