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• I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Stronger, Boxes

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.6, Egmont UK

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• Remember: You'll be left with an empty feeling if you hit the finish line alone. When you run a race as a team, though, you'll discover that much of the reward comes from hitting the tape together. You want to be surrounded not just by cheering onlookers but by a crowd of winners, celebrating as one.

  Howard Schultz

  Running, Cheer, Team

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.

  Steven Johnson

  Smart, Individual, Connected

  Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.42, Penguin

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• Chin held high, Miss Ohio beamed at an imagined crowd. "I want to be a motivational speaker." "What are you going to motivate people to do?" Smile still in place, she cut her eyes at Adina. "You know. Motivational ... stuff.

  Libba Bray

  Eye, Cutting, Ohio

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

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• Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.

  Cassandra Clare

  Stories, Appearance, Significant

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.980, Simon and Schuster

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• What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.

  Robert Stone

  Moving, Writing, Space

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• Even the intellectual crowd will have none of me. Physically, I look like one of them. Graying at the temples, I walk with a slight limp and wear thick glasses.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.94, Da Capo Press

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• A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Glances, Elementals

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.884, Penguin

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• Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.

  Robert Henri

  Running, World, Way

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Roots, Tangled, Dying

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3759, Delphi Classics

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• It's alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not where you've been. You're still an innocent. It's okay life is a tough crowd, 32 is still growing up now.

  Taylor Swift

  Growing Up, Light, Waiting

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• I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

  William Wordsworth

  Lonely, Nature, Spring

  "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" l. 1 (1815 ed.) See DorothyWordsworth 1

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• According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow.

  Alain de Botton

  Fate, Thinking, Secular Society

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• For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.

  Alexandra Potter

  Fleeting, Splits, Stranger

  Alexandra Potter (2004). “Calling Romeo”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone.

  Rick Warren

  Keys, Trying, Key To Success

  Rick Warren (2004). “What on Earth Am I Here For?”

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• All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.

  Arthur Golden

  Girl, Empty, Vain

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.376, Random House

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• There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation.

  Jeff Lemire

  Two, World, Way

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• I stare at this ceaseless, rushing crowd and imagine a time a hundred years from now. In a hundred years everybody here-me included-will have disappeared from the face of the earth and turned into ashes or dust. A weird thought, but everything in front of me starts to seem unreal, like a gust of wind could blow it all away.

  Haruki Murakami

  Blow, Dust, Years

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.59, Random House

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• As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

  Alberto Manguel

  Reading, Crafts, Limits

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• Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?" Minho asked, pulling Thomas's attention away from Alby. "Go ahead," Newt replied. Minho nodded and faced the crowd. "Be careful," he said dryly. "Don't die.

  James Dashner

  Giving, Attention, Newts

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Maze Runner)”, p.302, Delacorte Press

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• We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Running, Country, Stars

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• It didn't help matters that I was shy and wore glasses. I was never one to stand out in the crowd. I liked to stay in corners. And I was happiest when I was alone reading. That and the good grades I got in school had doomed any chance of being popular with my peers. So it was a foregone conclusion that boys like Hardy were never going to take notice of me.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Reading, School, Boys

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.367, St. Martin's Press

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• What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen, anecdotes that were funny only because one remembered the fun. Did any emotion really matter when the last trace of it had vanished from human memory; and if that were so, what a crowd of emotions clung to him as to their last home before annihilation? He must be kind to them, must treasure them in his mind before their long sleep.

  James Hilton

  Fun, Memories, Home

  Henry Williamson, James Hilton, Charles Nordhoff (1939). “Novel and story: a book of modern readings”

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• You know the typical crowd, Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there? Well, yeah. Because there’s nothing out there. It’s stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I’ve never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. That’s all. Sorry for all the millions, but I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have.

  Charles Bukowski

  Friday, Lonely, Sorry

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

  Jaron Lanier

  Mean, People, Design

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.19, Vintage

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