Majority Quotes

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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in… — Dave Barry
The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed… — Marshall McLuhan
The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage. — Garrison Keillor
California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you… — William J. Clinton
The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness… — James Madison
Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean… — Blaise Pascal
One with God is a majority. — Billy Graham
It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy.… — Bertrand Russell
All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public… — Bertrand Russell
An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols. — Sigmund Freud
The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter… — Vincent Van Gogh
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. — Eugene Delacroix
Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that,… — Eugene Delacroix
But the majority of things that one could get stressed about, they?re not worth getting stressed about. — Richard Branson
The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything. — Theodore Sturgeon
Abortion, however, is a big threshold issue for me because the dominant majority of people in my state are pro-choice, .. I ran as a… — Dianne Feinstein
The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads… — Rosie Perez
The gulf coast region has been hit hard by two major hurricanes and is going to need federal assistance at several levels, The best way… — Bob Goodlatte
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up… — Ben Horowitz

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