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The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. – Colin Wilson

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Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means youre being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy. – Colin Wilson

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The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them. – Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, 1932 July 30th

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