"The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds."

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Source : Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

Gerald Stanley Lee

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“Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.”
“There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.”
“When enough people agree on something, I'd be an idiot, if I didn't listen.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see the world in ways that are deeply influenced by the particular features of the tongue that we speak. The second is that we are all the same - that we can share the same broad and narrow kinds of feelings, information, understandings, and so forth. Without both of these suppositions, translation could not exist. Nor could anything we would like to call social life. Translation is another name for the human condition.”
“I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.”
“I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.”
“Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It's just a matter of timing. It's like you've marked your territory.”
“As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.”

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