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• Collective problems must be solved by all of us, collectively, and no one finds inner peace who avoids doing his or her share in the solving of collective problems.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inner Peace, Problem, Share

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.10, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• When societies are out of harmony, problems develop within the society - collective problems. Their purpose is to push the whole society toward harmony.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Purpose, Problem, Harmony

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.59, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.

  Oswald Spengler

  Writing, Important, Matter

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• Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

  Simone Weil

  Art, Art Is

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.151, Psychology Press

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• Religion is collective insanity.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Insanity

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• Climate change...is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Challenges, Climate, Faces

  Ban Ki-moon's Remarks at 39th Plenary Assembly of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, www.un.org. August 10, 2009.

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• I am a German nationalist, that means I am openly committed to my Volkstrum. All of my thoughts and actions belong to it. I am a socialist. I see before me no class or rank, but rather a community of people who are connected by blood, united by language, and subject to the same collective fate.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mean, Fate, Class

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• Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.

  William James

  Thinking, Pluralism, Form

  William James (1977). “A Pluralistic Universe”, p.146, Harvard University Press

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• Raindrops are beating, a large puddle is forming, there on the balcony. It all floats in Emptiness, in purest Transparency, with no one here to watch it. If there is an I, it is all that is arising, right now and right now and right now. My lungs are the sky; those mountains are my teeth; the clouds are my skin; the thunder is my heart beating time to the timeless; the rain itself, the tears of our collective estate, here where nothing is really happening.

  Ken Wilber

  Rain, Heart, Sky

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.151, Shambhala Publications

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• I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Appreciation, Struggle

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• Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Numbers, Groups

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.385, Penguin

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• Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the expression "collective rights"? is a contradiction in terms.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Expression, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.385, Penguin

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• Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.

  Michael Malone

  Country, Memories, Thinking

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• Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations and enabled new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science and revolution, the telephone enabled bureaucracy and globalization, the internet enabled virtual communities and electronic markets, the mobile telephone enabled smart mobs and tribes of info-nomads.

  Howard Rheingold

  Smart, Communication, Media

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• Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant, confused, and obscure even to itself.

  Michel Foucault

  Confused, Expression, Breathe

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• The country is in some trouble, because the media, which is supposed to provide a check and balance on government, has decided to stop doing that as a collective entity.

  Craig Newmark

  Country, Government, Media

  "Citizen Craig doesn't trust 'MSM'". Interviewed with John McManus, www.gradethenews.org. October 25, 2005.

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• I never think of my audience when I write a poem. I try to write out of whatever is haunting me; in order for a poem to feel authentic, I have to feel I'm treading on very dangerous ground, which can mean that the resulting revelations may prove hurtful to other people. The time for thinking about that kind of guilt or any collective sense of responsibility, however, occurs much later in the creative process, after the poem is finished.

  Rita Dove

  Writing, Mean, Responsibility

  Interview with M. Wynn Thomas, www.english.illinois.edu. August 12, 1995.

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• I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their identities and experiences.

  Steve Cosson

  Unique, Past, Identity

  "The Civilians’ Museum as Musical". Interview with Rachel Egan, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2014.

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• You know what's it's changed is my appreciate for the art form of making cinema. I don't want to act as much as I want to tell stories. I want to be a part of the whole collective and pull all of the pieces together. That's what I love about directing.

  Jason Momoa

  Art, Appreciate, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of individual labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Long, Unions

  Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

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• A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Team, Goal, Important

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Enhanced Edition: A Leadership Fable”, p.183, John Wiley & Sons

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• Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another

  Jane Urquhart

  Racism, Desire, And Love

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• Those who manage change in modern organizations need to learn to dance, to become healers capable of releasing collective energy to heal the wounds of change.

  Terrence E. Deal

  Organization, Energy, Needs

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• The path to big, systemic change is collective action. That takes Sister Courage.

  Gloria Feldt

  Path, Action, Bigs

  Gloria Feldt (2012). “No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power”, p.242, Seal Press

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• The importance of the development of the emotional body is hardly recognized today. We are pretty much left to our own devices to come to full adulthood, whether man or woman. Our elders may have become so denatured themselves from a lack of such nurturance that there is no longer a collective knowledge of how to guide the awakening emotional vitality and authenticity of our young people, our children. Mindfulness may contribute to a reawakening of this ancient wisdom in ourselves and in others.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Children, Men, Emotional

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