Remember that believing a thing does not make it true and denying it does not make it untrue. Nor will your believing certain things in any degree affect the facts. -William Fraser McDowell.
You can't love a crowd the same way you can love a person. And a crowd can't love you the way a single person can love you. Intimacy doesn't scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon. -Hugh Macleod.