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• I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I hold that it is only when we can prove all that we bring forward that we perfectly understand the thing under consideration. I know that the common herd takes little pleasure in these researches, but I know also that the common herd take little pains thoroughly to understand things.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Pain, Order, Words Of Wisdom

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• Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!

  Walter Scott

  Dream, Kings, Blood

  Walter Scott (1869). “Poetical Works: Complete in One Volume with All His Introd. and Notes”, p.220

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• Some of my colleagues want to be The Anchorman on the Mount. Others see themselves as the Ace Reporter. Because of 60 Minutes, there's a whole herd of them determined to be The Grand Inquisitor and a heady number want only to be The Friendliest Anchor on the Block. At least one wants to be Jesus.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Anchorman, Jesus, Block

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

  Albert Einstein

  Hate, Military, Civilization

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.10, Broadway Books

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• Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions were the ones who grew up to be both strong and civilized. Adolescents in such a community who were either too weak to control themselves or too contemptuous of society's norms to try usually ended up being either sheep or wolves- either mindless members of the herd or predators who took what they could and gave nothing.

  Orson Scott Card

  Strong, Valentine, Passion

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.235, Tor Books

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• When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their verdure, the linnets to warble forth their notes of love, and the flocks and herds to frisk over vales painted with flowers: yet, who is there so insensible of the beauties of nature, so little delighted with the renovation of the world, as not to feel his heart bound at the mention of the spring?

  Samuel Johnson

  Spring, Flower, Heart

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.97

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• You get a checklist, and then you just sort of ride herd on it. It's just a few items on a single sheet of paper.

  Kirk Kerkorian

  Paper, Sheets, Checklists

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• We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes and minibikes. The grown-ups looked so silly framed in their living-room and kitchen windows. They complained about their days and signed deep sighs of depression and loss. They talked about how spoiled and lucky children were these days. We will never be that way, we said, we will never say those things.

  Jill McCorkle

  Children, Silly, Kids

  Jill McCorkle (2003). “Creatures of Habit”, p.1, Algonquin Books

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• I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.

  Zhuangzi

  World, Way, Obsessed

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• The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.

  Gene Spafford

  Elephants, Mind, Computer

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• Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a country out of bigotry.  Fear never saved a marriage or a business.  Courage did that.  Faith did that. People who refused to consult or cower to their timidities did that.  But fear itself?  Fear herds us into a prison and slams the doors.  Wouldn't it be great to walk out?

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Faith, Country

  Max Lucado (2012). “Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Christian, Animal, Saint

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• The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal circumstance that distinguishes a civilised people from a herd of savages incapable of knowledge or reflection. Without that artificial help, the human memory soon dissipates or corrupts the ideas intrusted to her charge; and the nobler faculties of the mind, no longer supplied with models or with materials, gradually forget their powers; the judgment becomes feeble and lethargic, the imagination languid or irregular.

  Edward Gibbon

  Memories, Reflection, Ideas

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.354

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• You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd.
  [Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises,
  . . . Epicuri de grege porcum.]

  Horace

  Cute, Shining, May

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• What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

  Ben Horowitz

  Sheep, Venture, Lemmings

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• The meeting [in San Antonio of the National Women's Political Caucus] featured a cattle show at which a herd of Democratic candidates- Glenn, Cranston, Mondale, Hart, and Hollings- pantingly pantomined their fidelity to feminism, stopping just short of a pledge to use nuclear weapons against any states that omit to ratify the Equal Right Amendment.

  Daniel Seligman

  Political, Feminism, Use

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• Seven habits that help produce the anything-but-efficient markets that rule the world.
  1. Think short term.
  2. Be greedy.
  3. Believe in the greater fool
  4. Run with the herd.
  5. Overgeneralize
  6. Be trendy
  7. Play with other people's money

  Paul Krugman

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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• There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder! That's what you have to fight for. For people. Evil is a hydra with many heads, and the more of them you cut off, the more it grows! Hydras have to be starved to death, do you understand that? Kill a hundred Dark Ones, and a thousand more will take their place.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Fighting, Cutting, Dark

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• All the contagion of the south light on you,
  You shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues
  Plaster you o'er; that you may be abhorr'd
  Further than seen, and one infect another
  Against the wind a mile!

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Rome, Wind

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.26

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• 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.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Principles, Modern Life, World

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

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• But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in facing derision, courage in facing the hostility of one's own herd. In these, the bravest soldiers are often lamentably deficient. And above all there is the courage to think calmly and rationally in the face of danger, and to control the impulse of panic fear or panic rage.

  Bertrand Russell

  Courage, Mean, Fighting

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.364, Routledge

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• I miss that moment when you're about to go through the tube turn-style but you put your ticket in the wrong way and then as you're trying to figure out how exactly to get in the damn station you hear a collective sigh of 40 people behind you pissed that you're slowing down the herd.

  Dan Mangan

  People, Missing, Style

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• These are different animals now. They're starting to winnow out the weak at the fringe of the herd. We need to hurry or this could affect our snack situation.

  Tim Dorsey

  Animal, Snacks, Different

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• Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.

  Frank R. Stockton

  Silly, People, Together

  Frank R. Stockton (1906). “THE QUEEN'S MUSEUM AND OTHER FANCIFUL TALES”

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• This hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different.

  Rose McGowan

  Different, Behavior, Dangerous

  "Exclusive Interview: Rose McGowan: The Agitator". Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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