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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.


Georges Bernanos

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RYAN HOLIDAY Notwithstanding how good you are, you shall be perceived as bad by the masses when you take the extr...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Its not the content nor context,rather, its the character that masses heed to.
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HENRIK IBSEN Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation.
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JOHN F. KENNEDY O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?
ANDREI PLATONOV Classes and masses.
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ROBERT MUGABE We need to be able to control - erm, guide the masses that can't help control themselves.
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ROBIN SACREDFIRE They mislead the unwitting masses.
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study ...
MAO ZEDONG I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
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CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.
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CARL JUNG Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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GEORGES BRAQUE There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
GEORGES BRAQUE Truth exists; only lies are invented.
GEORGES BRAQUE Art is made to disturb. Science reassures.
GEORGES BRAQUE Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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GEORGES BIDAULT If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.
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GEORGES CUVIER Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
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GEORGES BATAILLE Uzunca bir süre kendine sığınaklar kurup yıktın: düzen ya da eylemsizlik, başıboş sürükl...
GEORGES PEREC Kayıtsızlık dili geçersiz kılıyor,işaretleri anlaşılmaz hale getiriyor.Sabırlısın ama be...
GEORGES PEREC Estás solo, y al estar solo, no has de mirar nunca la hora, no has de contar nunca los minutos. No ...
GEORGES PEREC Tu n'as rien appris, sinon que la solitude n'apprend rien, que l'indifférence n'apprend rien: c'ét...
GEORGES PEREC Tu as tout à apprendre, tout ce qui ne s'apprend pas: la solitude, l'indifférence, la patience, le...
GEORGES PEREC Non. Tu n'es plus le maître anonyme du monde, celui sur qui l'histoire n'avait pas de prise, celui ...
GEORGES PEREC A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of a...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU I am a believer and a conformist.
GEORGES ROUAULT Thus the tower was both disease and cure. It rendered him unfit for the world and it remedied the hu...
GEORGES RODENBACH Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a ...
GEORGES CUVIER A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not lim...
GEORGES CUVIER The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells ...
GEORGES CUVIER The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even cl...
GEORGES CUVIER In fact, ST was one of the first companies to initiate an environmental management program, which wa...
GEORGES AUGUSTE ST has long been a supporter of, and participant in international programs aimed at reducing greenho...
GEORGES AUGUSTE What often happens in a situation like this is people latch onto very concrete things, like buying v...
GEORGES BENJAMIN If we do all this work, and there's no pandemic, you still have 36,000 people die every year of seas...
GEORGES BENJAMIN A lot of the problems occur when people think everything's back to normal when in fact it isn't.
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