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Henry David Thoreau
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| "Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring
with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed
beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray,
to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of
the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all,
they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud
and troublesome insects of the hour." | |
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Edmund Burke
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| "Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "Hain"t we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain"t that a
big enough majority in any town?" | |
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Mark Twain
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| "No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than
ignoble." | |
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George Norman Douglas
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| "One on God"s side is a majority." | |
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Wendell Phillips
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| "Plurality is not to be assumed without necessity. Entia non sunt
multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (Ockham"s Razor)" | |
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William Ockham
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| "Plurality should not be assumed without necessity." | |
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William of Occam (Ockham)
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| "The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Truth is not determined by majority vote" | |
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Doug Gwyn
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| "Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is
opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go
together." | |
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Earl Nightingale
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