Individual Quotes - Page 17

• New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant--one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.

  Agnes Smedley

  New York, Destiny, Hopeful

  Agnes Smedley (2011). “Daughter of Earth”, p.234, Courier Corporation

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• Under the Obama regime, the president and his allies are intentional in pursuing these conflicts from the perspective that you must sacrifice your most sacred beliefs to government the instant you start a business. You have the protection of the First Amendment as an individual, you see – but the instant you start a business, you lose those protections.

  Bobby Jindal

  Work, Health, Sacrifice

  "The Silent War on Religious Liberty". Bobby Jindal's Remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library, officeofgovernorbobbyjindal.createsend1.com. February 13, 2014.

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• The masses cannot ultimately be free: only the individual can be.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Mass

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• What we often take to be family values--the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility--are in fact social, religious, or cultural values. To be sure, these values are transmitted by parents to their children and are familial in that sense. They do not, however, originate within the family. It is the value of close relationships with other family members, and the importance of these bonds relative to other needs.

  David Elkind

  Religious, Children, Honesty

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• Certainly parents play a crucial role in the lives of individuals who are intellectually gifted or creatively talented. But this role is not one of active instruction, of teaching children skills,... rather, it is support and encouragement parents give children and the intellectual climate that they create in the home which seem to be the critical factors.

  David Elkind

  Encouragement, Children, Teaching

  David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Christian, Doctors, Death Penalty

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• History is driven, over the long haul, by culture - by what men and women honor, cherish, and worship; by what societies deem to be true and good, and by the expressions they give to those convictions in language, literature, and the arts; by what individuals and societies are willing to stake their lives on.

  George Weigel

  Art, Men, Expression

  George Weigel (2005). “The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God”, p.30, Gracewing Publishing

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• A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share a common lot, that factors like class, race, religion, sexual preference, etc. do not create a diversity of experience that determines the extent to which sexism will be an oppressive force in the lives of individual women.

  Bell Hooks

  Race, Class, Diversity

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.5, Routledge

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• ... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.

  Bell Hooks

  Rights, Support, Black

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• We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

  Jon Meacham

  Law, Liberty, Who We Are

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• There is no news value to the content of those [Newtown 911] tapes. The actual audio is of no news value at all, unless you want the thrill of hearing the sound of the actual individual gunshot that might have killed a 7 year-old.

  Rachel Maddow

  Reality, Years, Justice

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• We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.

  Rand Paul

  Liberty, Fearful, Individual Liberty

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• Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.

  Patti Smith

  Journey, Choices, Suffering

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• The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Writing, Race, Self

  Henry Louis Gates (1989). “Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "racial" Self”, p.108, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working for the public good.

  Francis Galton

  Republic, Life Is, Unconscious

  Sir Francis Galton (0101). “Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development”, p.83, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially defined malaise, notan individual problem.... The conflict is not between being a mother and having a career; it is between nineteenth-century ideas about children and today's ideas about women.

  Sandra Scarr

  Mother, Children, Work

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• Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The key to success is to tailor the rearing environment to the developmental level of the child--what she or he can handle--and to individual differences among children.

  Sandra Scarr

  Children, Expression, Individual Differences

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• Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, others quiet; some confident, others less so. Respect for individual differences is in my view the cornerstone of good parent-child relationships.

  Sandra Scarr

  Children, Views, Individual Differences

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• Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

  David Brooks

  People, Needs, Individual Power

  "David Brooks’ Extraordinary Blindspot" by Jonathan Weiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2011.

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• You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we're not bound by that same limitation? We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Thinking, Order

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• Every single song has its own individual character and you can't treat each song the same way, because it wants to be treated differently and there are songs that are like scared birds that you have to sneak up on over the course of months in the woods.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Character, Bird

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• Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.

  Albert Einstein

  Cooperation, Unselfish, Valuable

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.185, Open Road Media

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• Kids need to start thinking for themselves. Not to be like their friends that think they're individuals. I don't want you to be like us, I want you to be like you.

  Marilyn Manson

  Kids, Thinking, Needs

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• One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

  Bertha von Suttner

  Rights, Truth Is, Eternal

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• Gossip, then, is content, a message about people; rumor is a process. It takes a bit of gossip and reshapes it, modifies it in some way, and passes it along from individual to individual in different ways.

  Jack Levin

  People, Gossip, Rumor

  Jack Levin, Arnold Arluke (2013). “Gossip: The Inside Scoop”, p.42, Springer

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