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ground, one in the plane. And that evening almost the whole town -- not only the town but nearby townspeople too -- gathered to see their utter embarrassment: "These idiots are thinking to fly!"
But they were shocked to see that they had succeeded: again the plane was in the air for sixty seconds, and the Wright brothers asked, "Now what do you say? Who is mad?"
And immediately they were saying, "These boys are geniuses! And they are our boys, from our town, from our area." And the family was rejoicing. The family threw a party because "Our boys have succeeded."
The Wright brothers were surprised: What has happened? Nobody is calling us mad; we have suddenly become geniuses! From all over the world people were coming to see... great scientists, great manufacturers who were interested to manufacture it, to get the secret. That small place became a pilgrimage place.
The masses function exactly the way penguins function. If you succeed in something, everybody is in favor of you. If you fail in something, everybody is against you. If you succeed, everybody will say, "We already knew that you were going to succeed. Didn't I say it?" If you fail, the same people will say: "We had already told you, `Don't be fools; this thing is not going to succeed.' "
The masses function like penguins or vice versa: penguins function like masses. But not you. You have already come with me, against the world. You are with me against the world.
It is not a question of imagining what you will do: you have already done it.
To be with me is to be in danger. And the danger will go on growing, first because the people who want to stop me, the people who want to cripple me so that I cannot work, will soon become desperate -- and they can do anything. They have all the powers; it is just that they don't have the truth on their side. They have powers, but existence is not with them. They can do any kind of harm to me and to my people, but they cannot do any harm to the truth. And I am determined to sharpen the truth as much as possible before any damage can be done to me.
There are many things I still have to say, and the situations are not
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