• The great mass of mankind is neither smart nor dumb, good nor bad, but subject to influence.

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  • Its risk is real: evil things will register more vividly than the great mass of dull good.

    NEWYORKER: The Information

  • But for the great mass of poetry enthusiasts, new poetry is usually received not so much with hostility as with indifference.

    ECONOMIST: English writers

  • But is there anything to persuade the great mass of "don't knows", turned-off and "don't cares" to finally make up their minds?

    BBC: Don't forget the don't-care vote

  • For example, much of the UK is still rebounding after the melting of the great mass of ice that covered the country thousands of years ago.

    BBC: Q&A: UK's small-scale earthquakes

  • It seems to have been not so much religious faith as the whole, enclosing framework of Catholicism, which, whatever its faults, gave order and meaning to the great mass of Spaniards, and which they were not about to surrender.

    NEWYORKER: Slaughterhouse

  • One can only hope that at some point, the great mass of people throughout the Arab world will reject the failed and costly ideology of war against Israel, the way the people of Eastern Europe have rejected their own failed and costly ideology.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Of Lions, Lambs, and Ostriches

  • Free Korea today faces economic challenges like it hasn't since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, or perhaps even since it overcame mass poverty with the great industrialization of the 1960s and 1970s.

    FORBES: Morning Calm, Disturbed

  • "People don't actually read newspapers, " quipped the great student of mass media, Marshall McLuhan.

    CNN: What we don't know about love and loneliness

  • Once the inquiry has finished sifting through a great mass of evidence, the judge is expected to decide on what shape a criminal trial will take - who will be charged and with what, says the BBC's Alan Johnston in Grosseto.

    BBC: Costa Concordia: 'Hand of God' saved lives

  • In an interwar Britain convulsed by a fresh set of shocks - the great depression, mass unemployment, the rise of fascism in Europe - it's hardly surprising that readers looked on such places as a nostalgic reminder of an apparently simpler time before August 1914.

    BBC: Magazine

  • The subjects ranged from health and anti-drug messages to the great economic changes of mass privatisation and financial deregulation.

    FORBES: How Margaret Thatcher Transformed the Creative Industry

  • The delicate floral and cornucopia motifs carved on the crest rails of his earlier Federal period sofas and side chairs recall the work of the great woodcarver Samuel McIntyre of Salem, Mass.

    WSJ: Duncan Phyfe | Furniture for a Young Nation | By Barrymore Laurence Scherer

  • The steel mill he bought in 1989 was part of Ford's great River Rouge plant, where the father of mass-produced cars turned raw materials into vehicles on a single site (see box, opposite).

    FORBES: Man of steel

  • The steel mill he bought in 1989 was part of Ford's great River Rouge plant, where the father of mass-produced cars turned raw materials into vehicles on a single site -- transforming ore and rubber into finished cars (see box, p.122).

    FORBES: Man of steel

  • Where does that leave us today in the immediate aftermath of the 2008-09 global financial crisis, just removed from the biggest crisis in confidence since the Great Depression of the 1930s (before brands were mass market and ubiquitous)?

    FORBES: The Era Of Brand Imperialism Is Over. Long Live The Reputation Economy!

  • They had all the new facts about worldwide gas prices, the existence of OPEC, the wonders of European mass transit, and all the great little cars from Europe and Japan.

    FORBES: Remember: Comedy is Easy, Change is Hard

  • The original Mass Effect is a great example of this, and in their own way, so are the Uncharted games.

    FORBES: Connect

  • The financial upsets of the past two decades, and especially the East Asian crisis of the late 1990s, have yielded a mass of new information and spurred a great deal of activity under each of these headings.

    ECONOMIST: Hot and cold running money | The

  • That looks like a great way to encourage the mass migration of savings from weak banks in the Euro area to stronger banks somewhere else.

    FORBES: Links 17 March: Cyprus Bailout And Predictions Of Disaster

  • Carnival trades at a forward PE multiple4 of 16, with a forecast long-term growth rate of around 16% per year.5 This is an attractive trade off, in my opinion, particularly given the great dynamics of an industry riding the powerful, long-term currents of mass affluence and aging.

    FORBES: Why Carnival Corp. May Be On Course For Smooth Sailing

  • Uneven and ineffective application of military power, vulnerability to mass terrorism and natural epidemics, blindness to the rise of a great competitor: matters like these, that may seem remote and abstract, are seldom as remote and abstract as they seem.

    WSJ: Our Blindness

  • So he lit out for the Berkshires and joined the board of Simon's Rock College, a liberal arts school in Great Barrington, Mass.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The USB Music Box lets you connect any USB mass storage device, it produces a great sound quality very similar to that of the radio - and it also gives you the ability to flick between songs and albums via the controls on their steering wheel.

    ENGADGET: Ford USB Music Box adds mass storage playback, smartphone charging to AUX-enabled receivers

  • The great mass teetering above is the interpreting case law, most of it built up by interventionist regulators whose main concern was to follow the law to the letter.

    ECONOMIST: Beleaguered Microsoft

  • But whatever form it takes, the great danger is terrorists or terrorist states with these weapons of mass destruction.

    CNN: Thompson's November 13, 2007, speech to The Citadel

  • This great mass of stars makes it impossible to discern the delicate gravitationally lensed distortions and the region is simply masked out.

    BBC: Science & Environment

  • The building sector has a huge energy footprint and uses a great mass of materials, so efficiency experts have targeted it for improvement.

    FORBES: Can Labeling Drive Products to Be Environmentally 'Nutritious'?

  • At least a half dozen of small rogue nations continue to build their capabilities to deploy weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them great distances.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Hence, the great westward migrations throughout our history, not to mention the mass movement of African-Americans from the South to the North and, more recently, that of Latinos throughout the country.

    FORBES: Movin' On to Happiness

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