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• We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Management

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• Even with a margin of safety in the investor's favor, an individual security may work out badly. For the margin guarantees only that he has a better chance for profit than for loss - not that loss is impossible. But as the number of such commitments is increased the more certain does it become that the aggregate of the profits will exceed the aggregate of the losses.

  Benjamin Graham

  Commitment, Loss, Numbers

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• The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Successful, Investing, Problem

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• You can't have the space for prosperity and success when you are obsessed with security. It is not possible to obtain unwavering security - physical, emotional, or economic - by having money. Keep in mind that security, like success, can be defined in many ways. If you focus less on how much your financial assets are worth, and more on what a creative and well-balanced individual you can be, security will take on a new meaning.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Emotional, Space, Creative

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• When the first human began to read and write, he or she set the world upon a new evolution. Similarly, if a few individuals have the strength and the power to walk away from the restrictions of the world and to stand fearlessly beyond it, eventually, in some distant millennium, all mankind will also come to that same liberation.

  Stuart Wilde

  Change, Writing, World

  Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.165, Hay House, Inc

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• You are an individual, and you came here on your own as a child, and you will die on your own. The fact that you may live in a community or with your family does not change the solitude of your spiritual journey. By cluttering your life with many things, you soon lose sight of who you are and what you came for.

  Stuart Wilde

  Spiritual, Children, Journey

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• While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.

  Dan Ariely

  Motivation, Revenge, People

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• Girls study under the paralyzing idea that their acquirements cannot be brought into practical use. They may subserve the purposes of promoting individual domestic pleasure and social enjoyment in conversation, but what are they in comparison with the grand stimulation of independence and self- reliance, of the capability of contributing to the comfort and happiness of those whom they love as their own souls?

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Girl, Self, Ideas

  "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.

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• If anything is due to a corporation, it is not due to the individual members thereof, nor do the members individually owe what the corporation owes.

  Justinian I

  Corporations, Members, Dues

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• Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Offering, Hands, Church

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• I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Two, People, Wonder

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.999, e-artnow

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• A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

  Amelia Barr

  May, Poverty, Painful

  Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart”, p.246, Library of Alexandria

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• Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Past, Artist, Soul

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Pennsylvania University Press, 1968.

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• The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  God, Men, Organization

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• Pioneering is the work of individuals.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Pioneers, Pioneering

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• Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on.

  Eda LeShan

  Goes On, Planning, Environment

  Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum

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• What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Race, Revelations, Humans

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• There may be beings, thinking beings, near or surrounding us, which we do not perceive, which we cannot imagine. We know very little; but, in my opinion, we know enough to hope for the immortality, the individual immortality, of the better part of man.

  Humphry Davy

  Men, Thinking, May

  Sir Humphry Davy, John Davy (1839). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy”, p.452

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• There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a threat to their existence. ... On the other extreme is the kind of popular government which is so distrustful of all forms of distinction that it sees even in the cultivated individual a menace to its existence. Such states are likely to maintain a pressure which discourages cultural endeavor, although the pressure may be exerted through social channels.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Government, Feelings, Insecurity

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• Education is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. ... The very though seems in a way the height of presumption. For one thing, it involves the premise that some human beings can be better than others.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Height, Way, Process

  Richard M. Weaver (1966). “Life Without Prejudice: And Other Essays”

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• There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of self-oblivionorself-contempt. That's calmly to turn away from everything, to say, "Enough!" and, folding one's useless arms across one's empty breast, to retain the ultimate, the sole attainable virtue, the virtue of recognizing one's own insignificance.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Fall, Self, Pieces

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• Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Art, Bears, Stamps

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• What is an individual? Just a bit of life shot off from the one Life in the universe-just a bit of love and truth dropped on this globe, just as the globe itself was once a bit of light and heat dropped from the sun.

  Clarence W. Barron

  Light, Sun, Heat

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• The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Community, Desire, Civilisation

  1959 Four Essays on Liberty.

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• It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.

  I. L. Peretz

  World, Redeemed, Whole

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