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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
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dissent
inspirational
moral-courage
public-opinion
religion
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Abraham Lincoln |
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Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.
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public-opinion
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Ray Bradbury |
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Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.
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gossip
libel
public-opinion
reputation
rumor
slander
wagging-tongues
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William Shakespeare |
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0da4106
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"Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues." [Stage direction, ]"
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gossip
libel
public-opinion
reputation
rumor
slander
tongues
wagging-tongues
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William Shakespeare |
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2c85040
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When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the time at its best consists entirely of people who will not accommodate themselves to anything. At its worst it consists of many millions of frightened creatures all accommodating themselves to a trend that is not there. And that is becoming more and more the situation...Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.
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public-opinion
sociology
trends
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G.K. Chesterton |
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fd5c470
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Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
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public-opinion
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Rudyard Kipling |
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8b37659
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The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.
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issues
memory
public-opinion
relevance
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E.M. Forster |
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"When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a city charity affair which all had to attend-and reproached him for what they called hid debasement of the public taste. "It is not my function" said Wynand, "to help people preserve a self-respect they haven't got. You give them what they profess to like in public, I give them what they really like. Honesty is the best policy, gentlemen, though not quite in the sense you were taught to belive"."
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public-opinion
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Ayn Rand |
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I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news. Every known detail of the origin of mankind is extremely important to such a specialist as Dr. Mondrick, but it doesn't interest the man in the street - not unless it's dramatized.
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knowledge
public-opinion
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Jack Williamson |