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Mass Quotes by Edward Abbey
- The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and…
- Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic…
- Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of…
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- The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
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- In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. — Russell Baker
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- Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. — Tallulah Bankhead
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