Individual Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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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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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
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It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
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For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
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I think there are a lot of different things that dreams do for the individual and they're fascinating because it's not totally known what they do, but we have some science that is opening the door to a new world as we speak.
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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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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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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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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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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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America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
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But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.
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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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A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
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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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Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.
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In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
