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• Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Party, Men, Looks

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• To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.

  Stephen Covey

  Judging, Rejection, Understanding

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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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• The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The people wanted and demanded a Bill of Rights written into their Constitution. The amendments embodying the Bill of Rights were intended to curb all branches of the Federal Government in the fields touched by the amendments-Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.

  Hugo Black

  Rights, Government, People

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• And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense.

  William Blackstone

  Kings, Rights, Self

  William Blackstone (2016). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: Of the Rights of People”, p.97, Oxford University Press

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• Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Character, Men, Ability

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• They are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and attainable through the action of state power; that social and individual differences, if they are not rational, are objectionable, and should be scientifically eliminated; that all people and societies strive to organize themselves upon a rationalist and scientific paradigm.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Believe, Men, Individual Differences

  "The Obliging Order: William F. Buckley’s War on Totalitarianism and Blandness" by Thomas F. Bertonneau, www.firstprinciplesjournal.com. Fall 2008.

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• Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

  Josh Billings

  Echoes, Air, Gossip

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• As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.

  Josh Billings

  Moral, Neat, Persons

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• The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Children, Environmental, Commodity

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• A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity, roughly corresponding to the complexity of the "individuals" of the various empirical fields... leading towards a "system of systems." [...] I suggest below a possible arrangement of "levels" of theoretical discourse...(vi) [...] the "animal" level, characterized by increased mobility, teleological behavior and self-awareness...

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Animal, Self, Mobility

  "General systems theory - the skeleton of science". Kenneth E. Boulding, Management Science, Volume 2, No. 3 (pp. 200-201), April 1956.

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• [T]he power system continues only as long as individuals try to get something for nothing. The day when a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from the government, declares that it will look after its own welfare and interests, then on that day the power elites are doomed.

  Antony C. Sutton

  Government, Long, Trying

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• No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.

  P. D. James

  Letters, Spontaneous, Form

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• Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Society, Purpose

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• The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him.

  D. H. Lawrence

  God, Communication, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.2907, Delphi Classics

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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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• Time and fevers burn away
  Individual beauty from
  Thoughtful children, and the grave
  Proves the child ephemeral

  W. H. Auden

  Death, Children, Thoughtful

  'Another Time' (1940) no. 18, p. 43

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• Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first two-thirds of this century reflected the new belief that government should also confer capacities on individuals. Liberalism's decline in the final third of this century has reflected doubts about whether government can be good at that, or whether government that is good at that is good for the nation's character.

  George Will

  Believe, Character, Government

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• Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable and possible, individual lives may be gloriously diversified, uniquely individualized, and yet socially useful; or, these are mere phrases, snares to catch gulls, soothing syrup for our troubled souls.

  George Amos Dorsey

  Men, Justice, Goal

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• The thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company.

  Benjamin Graham

  Simple, Years, Trying

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• Unless an investor has access to “incredibly high-qualified professionals,” they “should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors and most institutional investors.

  David F. Swensen

  Investing, Should, Passive

  "Yale Gets Educated In Retirement Plans" by Dan Solin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2016.

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• Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance.

  Michael Jensen

  Investing, Random Chance, Littles

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• Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakeable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers. Given the professional culture of the financial community, it is not surprising that large numbers of individuals in that world believe themselves to be among the chosen few who can do what they believe others cannot.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Powerful, Believe, Skills

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.247, Macmillan

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• Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.

  John C. Bogle

  Risk, Investing, Fund

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• We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward index funds, asset allocation determines about 100% of performance.

  Roger G. Ibbotson

  Long, Investing, Study

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