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• Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

  Aaron Hill

  Courage, Numbers, Lions

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• We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Leadership, Army

  "Pocket Patriot: Quotes from American Heroes". Book edited by Kelly Nickell, p. 157, 2005.

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• A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.

  William Congreve

  Running, Hungry

  William Congreve, Elijah Fenton (1779). “The Works of the English Poets”, p.127

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• We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

  Jean-Henri Fabre

  Vulgar

  Jean-Henri Fabre (1998). “The Passionate Observer: Writings from the World of Nature”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Animal, Hunting

  July 17, 1971 interview quoted in "Breath of Fresh Air", edited by Nicholas Schneider, p. 180, 2008.

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• We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Knowledge, Stupidity

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• It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.

  Mary McCarthy

  Hippie, Law, Marketing

  Mary McCarthy (1968). “Hanoi”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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• By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen.

  Marvin Minsky

  Light, Race, Jurassic Park

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• Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.

  Lindsey Graham

  Girl, Baby, Elephants

  "Social Security Debate Starts on a Good Note". "Special Report" with Jim Angel, www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2005.

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• People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Artist, People, Creative

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• My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.

  Buffalo Bill

  Horse, Leader, Shooting

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Littles, Common, Grind

  Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh (2000). “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

  Ben Hecht

  Yellowstone, Offering, Chicago

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• The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

  Israel Zangwill

  Lying, Men, Doe

  Israel Zangwill (2016). “The Big Bow Mystery”, p.91, Oldcastle Books

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  Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd.

  Doc Holliday

  Cowboy, Conflict, Wrongdoing

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• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

  Charles Mackay

  Ignorance, Crowds, Madness

  Charles Mackay (1996). “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and ConfusiÃ3n de Confusiones”, John Wiley & Sons

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• If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss

  W. H. Auden

  Nature, Moving, Moss

  'The Fall of Rome' (1951)

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• The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

  Thomas Gray

  Wind, Darkness, Tolls

  "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 1 (1751)

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• Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

  John Milton

  Summer, Sweet, Book

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 37

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• The terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever. This is what comes of a Protestant morality, that I, as a (thank God) typical Spaniard, found unnerving.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Running, Believe, Night

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• Thus with the year
  Seasons return, but not to me returns
  Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,
  Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,
  Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.

  John Milton

  Summer, Sweet, Flower

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 37

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• A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.

  Barbara Holland

  Writing, Cat, Animal

  Barbara Holland (1994). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, Ivy Books

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• To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Army

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• If you're going to follow your bliss and make a difference in the world, you'll soon learn that you can't follow the herd.

  Wayne Dyer

  Differences, Making A Difference, World

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.147, Hay House, Inc

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