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People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

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Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya. ↗

— Louis Leakey

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We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. ↗

— John Lennon

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Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it. ↗

— David Limbaugh

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I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

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Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular. ↗

— Tom McCall

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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. ↗

— Carrie Chapman Catt

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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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