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Letter "M" » majority
«The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population the intelligent ones or the fool»
Author: Henrik Ibsen
| Keywords:
biggest, Big Lie, majority, make up, population, populations, proportion, rebelling, The Fool
«The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.»
«The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.»
«The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
majorities, majority, minority, sometimes, wrong
«The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| About:
Life
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be on, escape, finding, find oneself, insane, majority, object, oneself, on the side, ranked, ranking, ranks, side
«The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.»
Author: Napoleon Hill
| Keywords:
creating, fail, lack, majorities, majority, meet, meeting place, new, New Man, persistence, place, plans, taking place
«The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible»
«The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.»
«The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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accused, accuses, accusing, approved, approving, as well, either, established, fang, fangs, fixes, fixing, fix it, fix up, folly, gets, highest, high and low, lowest, majorities, majority, order, Order of, The Accused, thoroughly
«The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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England, English, English people, enormous, majorities, majority, people of England, snobs, the English
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