It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

quote by William Lamb Melbourne
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

famous quote by Adlai Stevenson
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My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

quote by Lord Melbourne
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The American Popular Song

It's a popular song, an American popular song.
And there's something about it, can't live without it.
It's the tune of the day, somehow it takes you away
and it grabs you, and it holds you, feel it control you,
makes you want to clap your hands.
Makes you want to stomp your feet.
Makes you want to sing along. It means business.
The American popular song goes on and on.
The American popular song goes on and on and on.
It's a popular song. An American popular song.
A simple story wrapped up in glory.
Once you hear it you know you got to hear it some more.
And that's power, try it, you can't deny it.
Makes you want to clap your hands.
Makes you want to stomp your feet.
Makes you want to sing along. It means business.
The American popular song goes on and on.
The American popular song goes on and on and on.
It's a popular song. An American popular song.
It's a popular song, an American popular song.

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song performed by Neil Diamond
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Food in store turns poison

I admired her for her popularity
I loved and married for her popularity.
More admirers came close to her
For the very popularity.
I killed her for the same popularity.

One crave for the best
And with it he is with out rest
31.03.2001, Pmdi

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

quote by Geraldo Rivera
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Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

quote by Robert Hughes
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Popular Thug

You know what I am
You know what I do well at least I thought you knew
They call me Pusha
Damn
I take you like a slap in the face
Everytime the bass is mentioned like I had bad intentions
Listen, I thought love was given
So for you I did those things you were missing
Never have to say
Please gimme borrow
As long as I got yay
And two semi autos
And connects in the jets
Like wetback Carlos
I ain't askin' you to follow
Just think about tomorrow
Please
I should have known by the way that you stared
Eyeing Passes by like you're rich but life ain't fair
But you make my record skip

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song performed by Kelis
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

quote by Irwin Shaw
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Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

quote by Albert Einstein
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If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

quote by Steven Wright
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An unpopular rule is never long maintained.

quote by Seneca
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Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

quote by Neal Boortz
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Song: Popular Culture

Oh I'm sick to death of spin,
And this banal, self-serving sin,
That justifies usurpation like a king.
When shove will come to push,
Weilding power without blush,
This vigilante State is so right-wing!

Pop, pop, popular history,
Grows a crop of myth and mystery,
Where legends reap the cynical flattery,
That maintains the lie:
Of who we are,
What we've become,
In whose name,
Was violence done;
Of why we're here,
And how we came.
Who's excused,
And who's to blame.
Of where we're going,

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poem by Dave SmithWhite
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It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

quote by Alexander Hamilton
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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

quote by G.K. Chesterton
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I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

quote by Edith Sitwell
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The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

quote by Margaret Chase Smith
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A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

quote by Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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Popularity Is Not Again

Popularity like puberty
Will not happen twice.
Say, a movie once popular
Is not so when played later.

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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