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  • He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

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  • Walt Whitman Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes).
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Blaise Pascal Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Arthur Henderson He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • A. Owen Penny Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.
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  • Adam Clarke Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Eugene O'Neill The old, like children, talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
    Eugene O'Neill
    American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature (1888 - 1953)
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  • Henry Giles The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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