Individual Quotes
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Always be yourself. There's only one you. You should embrace anything that you don't like about yourself because that's individual and that's you.
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Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.
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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
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Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy.
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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
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You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.
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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.
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It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification.
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It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
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The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
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It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
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I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.
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Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.
