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Letter "T" » The Herd
«The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.»
«The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
dissenter, dissenters, herd, momentarily, resigns, The Herd
«The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.»
Author: St. Francis de Sales
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An example, elephant, female body, Five Days, herd, largest, mating, modest, purified, secretly, sixth, The Elephant, The Herd, third-year, unwilling
«So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.»
«Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.»
«Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.»
«Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Morality
| Keywords:
herd, herding, instinct, morality, The Herd
«The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.»
«I was a stricken deer, that left the herd / Long since.»
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