Individual Quotes - Page 25

• The intelligence of an individual in not a fixed quantity.

  Alfred Binet

  Fixed, Quantity

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• In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler's increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.

  Paul Lafargue

  Rights, Numbers, Political

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• Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexorable law of capitalist production.

  Paul Lafargue

  Order, Law, May

  Paul Lafargue (2016). “The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies”, p.12, Library of Alexandria

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• Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their individual health decisions and denying their right to reproductive care. Bosses belong in the boardroom, not in the bedroom.

  Dina Titus

  Religious, Decision, Boss

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• Change happens when one individual has had enough pain and finds the inner resolve to ask for help and make a difference.

  Mike Ferguson

  Pain, Differences, Making A Difference

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• I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them ... Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong.

  Kaz Cooke

  Opportunity, Rights, Feminist

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• For us, my wife and I and all of my partners believe that corporations have to be corporate citizens, and individuals who benefit from them, or who have built them, need to give back.

  Mark Walter

  Believe, Wife, Giving

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• Any individual decisions can be badly thought through, and yet be successful, or exceedingly well thought through, but be unsuccessful, because the recognized possibility of failure in fact occurs. But over time, more thoughtful decision-making will lead to better overall results, and more thoughtful decision-making can be encouraged by evaluating decisions on how well they were made rather than on outcome.

  Robert Rubin

  Successful, Thoughtful, Decision

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• The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.

  Clay Shirky

  Tools, Use, Bees

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• As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting proven programs and individual steps that lead to good health.

  Richard Carmona

  Doctors, Steps, Good Health

  "Childhood Obesity: Fighting for the Future Health of America's Youth" by Richard Carmona, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2010.

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• Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind.

  Leon Bourgeois

  Progress, Should, Mankind

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• This is the glory and miracle of grace, that God, through the Holy Spirit, is able to transform a stubborn, rebellious, and unbelieving will into a passionate, obedient, believing will without violating the integrity of the individual or diminishing the voluntary nature of one's decision to trust Christ for salvation.

  Sam Storms

  Integrity, Believe, Decision

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• Like paths and alleys overgrown with hardy, rank-growing weeds, the words we use are overgrown with our individual, private, provincial associations, which tend to choke the meaning.

  Stefan Themerson

  Weed, Association, Path

  Stefan Themerson (1997). “Bayamus & Cardinal Pölätüo”

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• Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.

  George Packer

  Party, Self, Broken

  "Darkness in Washington" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2013.

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• Each member of society can have only a small fraction of the knowledge possessed by all, and...each is therefore ignorant of most of the facts on which the working of society rests...civilization rests on the fact that we all benefit from knowledge which we do not possess. And one of the ways in which civilization helps us to overcome that limitation on the extent of individual knowledge is by conquering intelligence, not by the acquisition of more knowledge, but by the utilization of knowledge which is and which remains widely dispersed among individuals.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Civilization, Ignorant, Overcoming

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• You cant legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.

  Athol Fugard

  Heart, Asking Questions, Judging

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• I think we live in an era without a predictable career path. Everybodys doing more, doing more at the same time, doing more faster. As such, individual projects can have wildly different developmental trajectories.

  Alex Timbers

  Thinking, Careers, Eras

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• The human community and individual people are more likely to hurt or undernourish children they think of as 'bodies' to be used. Cultures and people are more likely to raise children to be mere economic interns rather than fully developed humans if they see children as 'bodies' to be forced into certain economic and social molds.

  Michael Gurian

  Hurt, Children, Thinking

  Simon & Schuster Interview, www.simonandschuster.co.uk.

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• We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.

  Bill W.

  Sobriety, Revolutionary, Outlook

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• I think if I were to express my wish, it would be that we are more regionally self-reliant. And I dont mean people being survivalists, I mean regionally self-reliant. So that you have these individual cells. The idea of having different solutions in different areas, so that we have a very robust, durable civilization.

  Daniel Suarez

  Mean, Thinking, Cells

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• He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.

  Benjamin Robbins Curtis

  Sacrifice, Ties, Welfare

  Benjamin Robbins Curtis, George Ticknor Curtis (1879). “A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL. D.: Professional and miscellaneous writings”, Boston : Little, Brown,

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• See God in everyone. It is deception to teach by individual differences and karma.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  Karma, Individual Differences, Deception

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• This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren't even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Believe, Dark, Differences

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2009). “The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)”, p.344, Random House

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• No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that:a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid.b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments.

  Carlo M. Cipolla

  Stupid, Intelligent, People

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• 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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