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The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has (Alger William R.)
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. (Alger William R.)
The crowd gives the leader new strength (Alger William R.)
Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafs full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room. (Alger William R.)
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Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes -- we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual. (Alger William R.)
Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them. (Alger William R.)
If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds. (Alger William R.)
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom. (Alger William R.)
Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do. (Alger William R.)
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason. (Alger William R.)
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