Groups Quote by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

““Nothing imaginative ever happens to five people at once, because each is up to only one-fifth of his personal intelligence and perception. A crowd is never equal to the intelligence of any one of its members.””

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

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“Yet the great “Why?” always at the center of the little “whats” and “hows” that makes religions into mythologies is often stronger in dead…

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“We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.”

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“It is possible to insult Americans?” “They are automatically insulted and enraged,” said the young composer. “They form splenetic organizations by the hundreds, and…

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“He proved that it was equally true if the disregard was by a ruler or by a people. "It spreads like a disease," he…

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“Places, like people, have their beginnings and have also their endings.”

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“Then our crime's worse than a murderer's. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law.”

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Is it really so important to be different?

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“Just being is the main thing. Anything else is extra.”

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“True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands…

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