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There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.

— Gerald Stanley Lee Crowds (1913)

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The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

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Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.

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Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

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