Individual Quotes
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The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities.
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If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge.
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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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Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him toward one faith or creed, discourages him from another, or makes it prudent or desirable for him to select one and embrace it.
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Individual honors come with team success.
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Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the environment in a dynamic, ongoing process that produces and continually refines an individual
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What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.
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The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.
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Communism, far from being an intolerable bureaucratic tyranny and individual regimentation, will be the means of greater individual liberty and shared abundance.” Words from If America Should Go Communist by Leon Trotsky, co-leader and standard-bearer of the Russian Revolution.
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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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Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.
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Individual learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for organizational learning.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.
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The ideal is to be obtained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species.
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No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.
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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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I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most effective way possible. But then, indirectly, the alchemy of martial arts began to strike some chords deep within the spirit of many individuals, transforming living war-machines into poets, artists, and philosophers.
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The toughest individual I've ever met in my life is Jim Kelly, No. 12.
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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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White privilege allows a certain kind of leisure that can be deployed by white people of advantage toward our restoration. That's all true and good. But it also suggests that there is an individual approach to the issues that many of these white people have taken up as a recognition of their tie to and responsibility for some of the inequities that exist. And I don't think it has to be an either-or. I think it has to be a bifocal approach.
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The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
