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Gerald Stanley Lee (1862 – 1944)


American Congregational clergyman and the author of numerous books and essays.
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Crowds speak in heroes.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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It is idle to say you are only fining a man a farthing, if he chooses to say it is his lucky farthing. It is waste of breath to call a thing a rag when he calls it a flag. This is the fallacy of those who, like Mr. Gerald Stanley Lee, the able American critic, imagine that a war must be a misunderstanding, which social intercourse and explanation would have set right.




Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
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America is a tune. It must be sung together.
It is never the machines that are dead.
It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.
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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.
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.
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Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.
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What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.
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The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.




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.
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