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The term "bellwether" in literature is often employed as a potent symbol of leadership and influence. In one notable example, the writers compare the role of a bellwether to that of a leader among sheep in order to highlight the natural tendency to follow a guiding figure, yet they also point out that unlike sheep, the crowd does not simply mimic the leader without discretion [1]. This usage underlines the dual notion of leadership—both as an influential signal and as an entity that commands a degree of independent thought among its followers.
  1. The crowd does not imitate or follow its leader as sheep do a bellwether.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park

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