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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something they want. - Crowds (bk. II, ch. IX) [Business] Business today consists in persuading crowds. - Crowds (bk. II, ch. V) [Business] The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand. - Crowds (bk. II, ch. XV) [Greatness] What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity. - Crowds (bk. II, ch. XVIII) [Christianity] Crowds speak in heroes. - Crowds (bk. IV, ch. III) [Heroes] Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu. - Crowds (bk. IV, ch. X) [Morality] A vice is a failure of desire. - Crowds (bk. IV, ch. XIII) [Vice] America is a tune. It must be sung together. - Crowds (bk. V, pt. III, ch. XII) [America] 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. - Crowds (bk. V, pt. III, ch. XVI) [Heroes] I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before. - Crowds (pt. II, ch. III) [Progress] Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world. - Crowds (pt. II, ch. IX) [Business] It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead. - Crowds (pt. II, ch. V) [Business]
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