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  • "So here comes our local Paul Revere," he greeted Randy.†   (source)
  • Paul Revere's ride is perhaps the most famous historical example of a word-of-mouth epidemic.†   (source)
  • When the Boston market required regulation, Paul Revere was appointed its clerk.†   (source)
  • Only two men were members of as many as five of the groups: Paul Revere was one of those two.†   (source)
  • Paul Revere was the Roger Horchow or the Lois Weisberg of his day.†   (source)
  • But telling Paul Revere ultimately meant the difference between defeat and victory.†   (source)
  • But Paul Revere quickly emerged as a link between all those far-flung revolutionary dots.†   (source)
  • Paul Revere started a word-of-mouth epidemic with the phrase "The British are coming."†   (source)
  • In the case of Paul Revere's ride, the answer to this seems easy.†   (source)
  • One can only imagine how "Paul Revere's afternoon ride" might have compared.†   (source)
  • If you read my first book, The Tipping Point, you'll remember that the discussion of Paul Revere was drawn from Fischer's Paul Revere's Ride.†   (source)
  • Samuel Adams was quick to callthe killings a "bloody butchery" and to distribute a print published by Paul Revere vividly portraying the scene as a slaughter of the innocent, an image of British tyranny, the Boston Massacre, that would become fixed in the public mind.†   (source)
  • All discussion of Paul Revere comes from the remarkable book by David Hackctt Fischer, Paul Revere's Ride (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).†   (source)
  • Fischer writes: When Boston imported its first streetlights in 1774, Paul Revere was asked to serve on the committee that made the arrangement.†   (source)
  • The stable boy ran with the news to Boston's North End. to the home of a silversmith named Paul Revere.†   (source)
  • This chapter is about the people critical to social epidemics and what makes someone like Paul Revere different from someone like William Dawes.†   (source)
  • If it were only the news itself that mattered in a word-of-mouth epidemic, Dawes would now be as famous as Paul Revere.†   (source)
  • The experiences of Paul Revere and Sesame Street and crime in New York City and Gore Associates each illustrate one of the rules of Tipping Points.†   (source)
  • He was carrying the identical message, through just as many towns over just as many miles as Paul Revere.†   (source)
  • When the community of Boston was shattered by the most sensational murder trial of his generation, Paul Revere was chosen foreman of the jury.†   (source)
  • The news spread like a virus as those informed by Paul Revere sent out riders of their own, until alarms were going off throughout the entire region.†   (source)
  • Part of the particular power of Paul Revere, for example, was that he wasn't just a networker; he wasn't just the man with the biggest Rolodex in colonial Boston.†   (source)
  • Similarly, after Paul Revere had passed on his news, you can imagine that all of the men in the militia movement gathered around and made plans to confront the British the following morning.†   (source)
  • He was a super Paul Revere.†   (source)
  • Paul Revere was a Connector.†   (source)
  • Along Paul Revere's northern route, the town leaders and company captains instantly triggered the alarm," Fischer writes.†   (source)
  • All discussion of Paul Revere comes from the remarkable book by David Hackctt Fischer, Paul Revere's Ride (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).†   (source)
  • Here, then, is the explanation for why Paul Revere's midnight ride started a word-of-mouth epidemic and William Dawes's ride did not.†   (source)
  • It could even be argued that the success of Paul Revere's ride — in some way — owed itself to the fact that it was made at night.†   (source)
  • This is surely part of the explanation for why Paul Revere's message was so powerful on the night of his midnight ride.†   (source)
  • He was also a doer, a man blessed — as David Hackett Fischer recounts in his brilliant book Paul Revere's Ride — with an "uncanny genius for being at the center of events.†   (source)
  • We talk about "epidemics of violence" or crime waves, but it's not clear that we really believe that crime follows the same rules of epidemics as, say, Hush Puppies did, or Paul Revere's ride.†   (source)
  • But if you add up the examples of Salesmen and Connectors, of Paul Revere's ride and Blue's Clues, and the Rule of 150 and the New York subway cleanup and the Fundamental Attribution Error, they amount to a very different conclusion about what it means to be human.†   (source)
  • Regular Paul Revere, eh?†   (source)
  • Mr. Schiller, they saw, was religiously impressed, like Patrick Henry, George Washington, and Paul Revere, with the beauties of Liberty.†   (source)
  • During the War, the Red Coats and Paul Revere was throwing balls over stone walls.†   (source)
  • Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.†   (source)
  • So through the night rode Paul Revere; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm, — A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore!†   (source)
  • For, borne on the night-wind of the Past, Through all our history, to the last, In the hour of darkness and peril and need, The people will waken and listen to hear The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed, And the midnight message of Paul Revere.†   (source)
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