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Men Go Mad In Herds

By consumerist.com June 25, 2009

Men…think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

– Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds [Google Books or download in full at Project Gutenberg] (Photo: tifotter)

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