The ultimate repository of herd influence is language-a device which not only condenses the opinions of those with whom we share a common vocabulary, but sums up the perceptual approach of swarms who have passed on. (Howard Bloom)

The ultimate repository of herd influence is language-a device which not only condenses the opinions of those with whom we share a common vocabulary, but sums up the perceptual approach of swarms who have passed on.

Howard Bloom

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