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• I am one of a team of Iraqi weapons inspectors currently travelling through the United Kingdom under very difficult conditions searching for weapons of mass distraction.

  Attila the Stockbroker

  Team, Kingdoms, Weapons

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• Out of the total number of the persons designated for the execution, fifteen men were led in each case to the brink of the mass grave where they had to kneel down, their faces turned towards the grave. When the men were ready for the execution one of my leaders who was in charge of this execution squad gave the order to shoot. Since they were kneeling on the brink of the mass grave, the victims fell, as a rule, at once into the mass grave.

  Paul Blobel

  Men, Order, Squad

  "The Eichmann Kommandos". Book by Michael Angelo Musmanno, p. 157, 1961.

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• If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not a thing of masses and of spasmodic efforts, then a true idea would begin to tell upon the habits of our domestic life, for the thrift and thriving of the individual is the thrift and thriving of the nation.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Ideas, People, Effort

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• Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.

  Seneca the Younger

  History, World, Matter

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• Without collective awakening the catastrophe will come. I think people in the mass media, journalists, film makers and others, you can contribute to the collective awakening if you are awake and then your life will embody that awakening.

  Nhat Hanh

  Thinking, Media, People

  "The role of journalists and corporates in combating climate change" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

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• [Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

  Aristotle

  Men, Human Nature, Mankind

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• Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.

  Aristotle

  Character, Men, Self

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.188, Wordsworth Editions

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• The Americans had not played a very prominent part in the war of 1914-1918, he (Adolf Hitler) thought, and moreover, had not made any great sacrifices of blood. They would certainly not withstand a trial by fire, for their fighting qualities were low. In general no such thing as an American people existed as a unit; they were nothing but a mass of immigrants from many nations and many races.

  Albert Speer

  War, Fighting, Sacrifice

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• Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Pain, Joy

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• The root of democracy is in mass education. This foundation becomes stronger, when the citizens of tomorrow, our children are also educated about the electoral process.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Children, Roots

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• Development should be a mass movement. We need to integrate the people and make it a mass movement.

  Narendra Modi

  People, Needs, Movement

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• Good governance is treating development as a mass movement in order to see that fruits of development reach the poor and the downtrodden.

  Narendra Modi

  Order, India, Movement

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• National festivals should become festivals of development. Republic Day or Independence Day should not be only about unfurling the Tricolour in the state capitals. We have to make them opportunities of Lok Shikshan (Mass Education).

  Narendra Modi

  Opportunity, Empowerment, Independence

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• Well, I think the most realistic ways to keep them [Saddam Hussien & Slobadon Milisevic] isolated in the world of public opinion and to work with our alliance is to keep them isolated. I'm just as frustrated as many Americans are that Saddam Hussein still lives. I think we ought to keep the pressure on him. I will tell you this: If we catch him developing weapons of mass destruction in any way, shape or form, I'll deal with that in a way that he won't like.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Mass Destruction, Frustrated

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• In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Mass Destruction, Long

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.272, Hoover Press

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• The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes -- the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the first grade of education to qualify them for their pursuits and duties; the learned will need it as a foundation for further acquirements.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Class, Two, Foundation

  Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, Joseph Carrington Cabell (1856). “Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell”, p.385

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• I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Desire, May

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.292

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• Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as its ethical standpoint.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Religious, Mass Destruction, Iran

  "Amanpour" with Christiane Amanpour, amanpour.blogs.cnn.com. September 25, 2013.

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• The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.

  Eugene Ionesco

  People, Insanity, Trying

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• Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Moon, Saturn

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.373, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. But that's unacceptable. As others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn't 'too soon.' It's much too late.

  Ezra Klein

  Gun, Mass Shootings, Talking

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• It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.

  Dean Koontz

  Soul, Opinion, Speak

  Dean Koontz (2013). “Innocence (with bonus short story Wilderness): A Novel”, p.171, Bantam

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• We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Giving, May, Sake

  Benjamin Franklin (1817). “The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin ...: Comprising a Series of Letters on Miscellaneous, Literary, and Political Subjects, Written Between the Years 1753 and 1790, Illustrating the Memoirs of His Public and Private Life, and Developing the Secret History of His Political Transactions and Negociations”, p.52

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• I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Skills, Weight

  Raymond Cogniat, Georges Braque, Joanne Greenspun (1980). “Georges Braque”

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• One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Shapes, Narrative

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