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"The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before." »Alan Ashley-Pitt
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"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." »Alan Ashley-Pitt
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"The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd." »R. S. Donnell
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"We two are to ourselves a crowd." »Ovid
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"Never give advice in a crowd." »Arab Proverb
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"Every crowd has a silver lining." »Phineas Taylor Barnum
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"Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily." »Arthur Brisbane
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"The crowd gives the leader new strength." »Evenius
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"We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." »Max Lucado
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"Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening." »Jerry Coleman
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"He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent." »Karl Kraus
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"Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination." »Paul Aubuchon
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"Inside a crowd, you have no right to complain about the crowdedness, because you are already a part of it!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Anyone can follow the crowd but only a true visionary will dare to stand up for what he/she believes in." »Precious
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"...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." »Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance (essay)
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"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months." »Oren Arnold
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"We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd." »Anonymous
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"Good sense travels on the well-worn paths genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics." »Cesare Lombroso
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"The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd." »John Train
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"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece." »Ralph Charell
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"Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd." »From the I Ching
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"One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding." »Marcus Aurelius, Meditations – Book Three
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"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it." »Mark Twain
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"[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it." »Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX
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"The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it." »Will Rogers
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"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd." »Edith Sitwell
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"Hark! here the sound of lute so sweet, And there the voice of wailing loud; Here scholars grave in conclave meet, There howls the brawling drunken crowd; Here, charming maidens full of glee, There, tottering, withered dames we see. Such light! Such shade! I cannot tell, If here we live in heaven or hell." »Bhartrihari
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"A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say. "May new sufferings torment your soul."" »Soren Kierkegaard
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