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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. – Norman Mailer

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There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you. – Norman Mailer

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Majority
Author
Norman Mailer
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The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high. – Norman Mailer

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Las Vegas
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Norman Mailer
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Minorities
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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. – Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton

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Minorities

My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Minorities

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Minorities

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. – Henry David Thoreau

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Minorities

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The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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Empire

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts. – Buddha

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Caution

Dont bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. – Salvador Dali

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