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His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time h...

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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around t...

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Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded

Winnie the Pooh finds comfort in counting his pots of honey, and Rabbit finds comfort in knowing whe...

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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddle-headed, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be di...

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The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what’s important, not popular.

False has many wings. Do not judge anything by its popularity.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

I find comfort in the fact that the longer I'm in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, t...

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Barack ObamaThe Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.

Normal....What the majority of people look, act, and talk and like.So what if the majority became wh...

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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", Fe...

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[When asked about his thoughts on gods]I think it's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a st...

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She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was b...

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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or ba...

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Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to ...

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Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval...

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There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft withou...

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing...

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You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t e...

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Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to mys...

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That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pret...

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All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, “Stop trying to make me like you,” and what a soberi...

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If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all becaus...

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Popular! In America, what else matters?

But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it t...

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If the artist reflects only his own culture, then his works will die with that culture. But if his w...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Ge...

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Mark Kurlansky1968: The Year That Rocked the World

Bellgrove, eminently lovable, because of his individual weakness, his incompetence, his failure as a...

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I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ...

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A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolu

The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere...

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This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future histori...

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He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all...

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