Individual Quotes
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The first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.
George Washington -
I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult.
Albert Einstein
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The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced it not because they championed 'democracy' or the individual, but because they knew it would be one of several important mechanisms for empowering the federal government and unraveling constitutional republicanism.
Mark Levin -
The goal of astrology is the alchemy of personality. It is to transform chaos into cosmos, collective human nature into individual and creative personality.
Dane Rudhyar -
But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.
Aristotle -
Music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first. The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so again I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.
Greg Dulli The Afghan Whigs -
All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.
Ian Curtis Joy Division -
She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
Oscar Wilde
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Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski -
A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.
F. E. Smith -
Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.
Bede Griffiths -
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.
Aristotle -
Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
Laura Esquivel
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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
William Hazlitt -
...we must support and protect individuals and companies engaged in life saving medical research
Tony Blair -
Be an individual. I mean, obviously it's hard for a brand, for a corporation, to have a huge following.
Cameron Dallas -
Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.
William Osler -
I speak very highly of Jim Thome. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great individual.
Harmon Killebrew -
In the early stages of wealth, up to 10 years after individuals became very rich, they display a bit of reluctance to spend money. It's a lot easier rationalizing spending a lot for a house.
Frederick W. Taylor
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Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.
Mark Levin -
I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.
Zadie Smith -
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Madame de Stael -
Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times.... As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them).
Vladimir Nabokov