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• It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mind, Yoke, Foals

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind ... To move among this bright, strange, often fabulous herd of beings, to summon them at my will, to fasten them on to paper like flies, that they may decorate it, this is the pleasure of writing.

  Rose Macaulay

  Moving, Writing, Mind

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.148, A&C Black

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• Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
  [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis
  Que les imitateurs.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Fool, Opinion, Imitation

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• The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages.
  [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]

  Ovid

  Friendship, Advantage, Vulgar

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• The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Eye, Society, Littles

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4092, Delphi Classics

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• We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.

  Paul Rusesabagina

  Powerful, People, Way

  Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner (2006). “An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography”, p.219, Penguin

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• It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three stood out quite distinctly, head and shoulders above the rest of the herd: Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, and Bush’s America. At times when working on the three relevant chapters, I had to remind myself which chapter was the one in front of me: the parallels between the three regimes, in terms of their vigorous attempts to trample honest science underfoot, are as horrifically close as that.

  John Grant

  Depressing, Past, Russia

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• Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Democracy, Domination

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• I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Airplane, Elephants

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• Trying to coach kindergarteners in soccer is like trying to herd cats.

  Mark R. Woodward

  Soccer, Cat, Trying

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• Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Latin, Rain, Land

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• I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. The eagle is a powerful bird. It flies alone. It rises up into the sky with authority. It is master of all it surveys. The eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. But the buffalo was never alone. It always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. And, friends, I call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Powerful, Thinking, Eagles

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• There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men.

  John Lukacs

  Believe, Men, Order

  John Lukacs (1970). “The Passing of the Modern Age”

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• Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.

  Dale Carnegie

  Mistake, Giving, Feelings

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.

  Sigmund Freud

  Teamwork, Animal, Men

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• Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines that the attention of the world will be attracted; some quality, good or bad, which discriminates him from the common herd of mortals, and by which others may be persuaded to love, or compelled to fear him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Men, Quality

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• Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Imagination, Fool, Opinion

  "Clymène". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, V, 54, 1671.

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• Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Europe, Today, Morality

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• She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd.

  Jack Johnson

  Dream, Art, Media

  Song: Rodeo Clowns

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• The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

  Walter Lippmann

  Exercise, May, Live Free

  Walter Lippmann (2011). “The Phantom Public”, p.145, Transaction Publishers

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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

  Running, Race, Crowds

  John Train (1994). “The craft of investing”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.

  Larry McMurtry

  Writing, Littles, Form

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• If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. But men do not need to be actually gathered together in a public meeting or in a street riot, to be subject to the influences of mass psychology. Because man is by nature gregarious he feels himself to be member of a herd, even when he is alone in his room with the curtains drawn.

  Edward Bernays

  Leadership, Men, Psychology

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.35, Lulu.com

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• With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Dream, Goal

  Og Mandino (2011). “Og Mandino's University of Success: The Greatest Self-Help Author in the World Presents the Ultimate Success Book”, p.339, Bantam

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• Whatever may be the talents of the persons who meet together in [American] society, the very shape, form, and arrangement of the meeting is sufficient to paralyze conversation. The women invariably herd together at one part of the room, and the men at the other ... The gentlemen spit, talk of elections and the price of produce, and spit again. The ladies look at each other's dresses till they know every pin by heart.

  Frances Trollope

  Heart, Men, Gentleman

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