Individual Quotes - Page 16

• Talking about food arouses certain individuals the way talking about sex does others.

  Bert Greene

  Sex, Talking, Doe

  Bert Greene (1986). “Bert Greene's kitchen bouquets: a cookbook celebration of aromas and flavors”, Fireside

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• War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!

  Heinrich von Treitschke

  War, Men, Wish

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• The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Art, Poetry, Reign

  Cecil Day Lewis (1969). “The Poetic Image”

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• Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Winning, Games

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• I feel I'm doing God's work switching people from group plans to individual insurance.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  People, Groups, Switching

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• The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Fashion, Cost, Benefits

  "TED 2010 | Nicholas Christakis: Does This Social Network Make Me Look Fat?". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. February 12, 2010.

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• I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

  Dan Harmon

  People, Feelings, Bases

  "How Dan Harmon Drives Himself Crazy Making Community" by Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. September 22, 2011.

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• The overall "look, this is the one way to live" approach to this individual who is clearly living a happy life, who is clearly completely satisfied with and fulfilled by the tasks that he was able to complete every day, like eating, healing his own wounds, doctoring himself and whatever. And then this voice says, "Look, your life is inadequate. This is the way you need to live." Giving that depiction of the subversive methods by which our way of life creeps into our own psyche and eliminates alternatives. That's what happens.

  Mr. Lif

  Healing, Happy Life, Giving

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• I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

  George Steiner

  Believe, Men, Use

  George Steiner (2008). “My Unwritten Books”, p.72, New Directions Publishing

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• A group of women who valued motherhood, but valued it on their own timetable, began to make a new claim, one that had never surfaced in the abortion debate before this, that abortion was a woman's right. Most significantly, they argued that this right to abortion was essential to their right to equality -- the right to be treated as individuals rather than as potential mothers.

  Kristin Luker

  Mother, Abortion, Groups

  Kristin Luker (1985). “Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood”, p.92, Univ of California Press

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• So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and apathy toward the weak, the poor the oppressed and the needy (Ps. 82), the church can hardly carry out its role in manifesting, on earth and in heaven, Christ's victory over these gods without taking up as a central part of its missions just these causes. We can, in truth, no more bifurcate social concerns and individual salvation than we can bifurcate the cosmic and anthropocentric dimensions of Christ's work on the cross.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Heaven, Victory, Age

  Gregory A. Boyd (1997). “God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict”, p.254, InterVarsity Press

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• I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Love, Believe, Men

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• I do not despise genius-indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and observation, I have become convinced that industry is a better horse to ride than genius. It may never carry any man as far as genius has carried individuals, but industry-patient, steady, intelligent industry-will carry thousands into comfort, and even celebrity; and this it does with absolute certainty.

  Walter Lippmann

  Horse, Intelligent, Men

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• If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.

  Francois Rabelais

  Sex, Humanity, Balls

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• Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Progress, Culture, World

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• Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mankind, Abstraction

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• Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Book, Believe

  Thomas Jefferson, Martin Alfred Larson (1981). “Jefferson: Magnificent Populist”, Robert B Luce

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• Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to the God idea, and opposes the theistic principle as such. Gods in their individual function are not half as pernicious as the principle of theism which represents the belief in a supernatural, or even omnipotent, power to rule the earth and man upon it. It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.

  Emma Goldman

  Fighting, Men, Ideas

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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• Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. We join a mass movement to escape from individual responsibility, or, in the words of an ardent young Nazi, to be free from freedom. It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?

  Eric Hoffer

  Responsibility, Men, Order

  "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 26, 1951.

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• Atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair was murdered. Jon Murray and Robin Murray-O'Hair were also murdered by individuals involved with the atheist organization.

  William J. Murray

  Atheist, Hair, Organization

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• I love to tell how I'm suffering because one percent we're paying 25 percent of the total. We're not paying 25 percent of the total taxes on individuals. We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends. They take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Payroll Tax, Government, Suffering

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• The world is in such a mess because of the continuous conflict that arises between human beings - not only between individuals but between tribes and nations and this group and that group and so on. But change can come in only when people start with themselves.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Groups, World

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Every individual is in touch with the deeper level of being, the aware consciousness. If these humans form groups, they do not derive their sense of self from the group, which does not mean there cannot be a sense of being part of this group. But the group itself does not become an egoic entity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Self, Groups

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I think people always appreciate somebody else's informed educated opinion. To the degree that anybody with a computer can offer a journalistic point of view whether or not they have a degree, it sort of alters the validity of you have to place on anyone's individual comment.

  Seth Green

  Thinking, Views, People

  "Interview: Seth Green talks ‘Dads’ controversy". Interview with Liane Bonin Starr, uproxx.com. September 17, 2013.

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• As an individual, as a household, you can't spend more money than you're bringing in. You can do it for a little while, but you end up going broke and you end up losing everything you have. That is the path that we're on as a country, and it scares me to death.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Country, Losing Everything, Scare

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 21, 2012.

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