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“Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.”

People Thinking Men Way Has Beens Art Sometimes Literature Individual Leader Mass Accounts Average Department Immense Superiority Great Leader Exhibits Literature And Art

Book:Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days

Source: Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days

“The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not have been long forgotten.”

Men Long Has Beens Artist Individual Accounts Forgotten Individualism Revolt

Book:Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art

Source: Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art

“Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit and takes no risk. But the prosperous individual who counts his money in the street, forthwith will be invited to attend a charity bazaar.”

Men Individual Poor Money Risk Streets Accounts Charity Credit Invited Prosperous Poor Man Bank Accounts Bazaars

Book:The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays

Source: The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays

“Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.”

Humans Individual Language Given Study Development Ordinary Tasks Accounts Independent Method Physics Objectives Judgement Human Experience Subjective Human Language

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Yes, I spent two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had been thrown out of their academic jobs because they taught that there was a possibility of life coming from something other than Darwinism, who thought that possibly random selection and mutations didn't account for the universe, didn't account for gravity, didn't account for why nobody had ever seen an individual species evolve - no one's ever seen an individual species evolve!”

People Years Long Two States Jobs Universe Individual United United States Possibility Taught Europe Accounts Species Evolve Thrown Academic Gravity Selection Darwinism Mutation

Author:Ben Stein

“I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from individuals whose credibility is beyond question afford convincing proof that the Japanese Army behaved and is continuing to behave in a fashion reminiscent of Attila and his Huns. Not less than 300,000 Chinese civilians were slaughtered, many in cold blood.”

Individual Blood Fashion Cold Letters Accounts Army Committed Proof Chinese Behave Elsewhere Continuing Convincing Credibility Civilians Atrocities Eyewitnesses Atrocities Committed

Author:Koki Hirota

“The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.”

Individual Community Accounts Increase Recognition Civilized Preservation Diagnosis Psychopathic

Author:Boris Sidis