Individual Quotes
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Christianity brought something new and revolutionary: freedom and unconditional dignity for each individual, regardless of his religion, culture or nationality. But the East and the West have parted ways since the Crusades.
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It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike powerless before the advance of the Assyrians, that magical superstitions based on mere terror, or rites designed to conciliate alien gods, invade the sphere of tribal or national religion. In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
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The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.
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Individualism denotes the relationship between the individual and the collectivity which prevails in a given society.
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It's been an amazing year of individual performances.
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It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract
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A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.
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The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
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When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.
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It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas.
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It's possible to do your best work at your highest level without competing. I'm not anticompetition, but at an individual level, it can be degrading for both sides. And it doesn't have to be that way. I've done pretty well at getting past that sort of thing, and it's a relief not to have the rancor.
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An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.
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Economic growth and 'future superpower' status is all very good but that doesn't guarantee dignity for every individual.
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The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
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I'm a very relentless individual and have a lot more insanity coming.
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That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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I always try to individualize everything, every person. I see individuals and that's why I've never fallen for racism, or any type or classification of people.
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Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.
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Although gravity is by far the weakest force of nature, its insidious and cumulative action serves to determine the ultimate fate not only of individual astronomical objects but of the entire cosmos. The same remorseless attraction that crushes a star operates on a much grander scale on the universe as a whole.
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College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line.
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Shawn AchorHappiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.
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Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual to function in a manner acceptable to himself and to the group of which he is a part.
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I have multiple personalities, but, being a fairly uncreative individual, they are all Thom Yorke.
