Individual Quotes - Page 5

• The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Moving, Light, Race

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• When in company with literary women, make no allusions to 'learned ladies,' or 'blue stockings,' or express surprise that they should have any knowledge of housewifery, or needle-work, or dress; or that they are able to talk on 'common things.' It is rude and foolish and shows that you really know nothing about them, either as a class or as individuals.

  Eliza Leslie

  Blue, Should Have, Class

  Eliza Leslie (1839). “Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book: A Guide and Manual for Ladies as Regards Their Conversation; Manners; Dress; with Full Instructions and Advice in Letter Writing [!]; Receiving Presents; Incorrect Words”, p.259

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• There is nothing in the education of the average non-scientific human being to discourage him from the habit of generalizing from little or no evidence, and worse still and far more important, nothing to discourage him from the habit of starting with a generalization and ending up with the individual, instead of the other way round.

  Gwethalyn Graham

  Average, Important, Littles

  Gwethalyn Graham (1944). “Earth and High Heaven”

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• while it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work will be very meagre if these individual traits are not also seen as part of a universal drama - for each man's life is also the story of Everyman.

  Iris Origo

  Drama, Passion, Men

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• childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.

  Kate Green

  Country, Taken, People

  Kate Green (1994). “Black Dreams”, Harpercollins

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• The only good thing we can do, the only goodness we can be sure of, is our own goodness as individuals and the good that we can individually do. As groups we often do evil that good may come and very often the good does not come and all that is left is the evil we have pointlessly done.

  Marghanita Laski

  Evil, Individuality, Groups

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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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• When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.

  Niger Innis

  Responsibility, Ladders, Facts

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• Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life. The more diversified our labors and interests have become in the modern world, the more surely need to integrate our efforts to justify our individual selves and our civilization.

  Walt Disney

  Teamwork, Mean, Self

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• The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.

  Ruth Benedict

  Community, Culture, Shapes

  Patterns of Culture ch. 1 (1934)

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• Throughout my life, I have always supported the human being in his humanism and I have supported the oppressed. I think it is the person's right to live his freedom and it is her and his right to face the injustice imposed on each by revolting against it, using his practical, realistic and available means to end the oppressor's injustice toward him, whether it is an individual, a community, a nation, or a state; whether male or female.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Mean, Thinking, Community

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• The intelligent altruists, though less altruistic than unintelligent altruists, will be fitter than both unintelligent altruists and selfish individuals.

  Herbert Simon

  Selfish, Intelligent, Unintelligent

  Herbert Alexander Simon (1997). “Models of Bounded Rationality: Empirically grounded economic reason”

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• Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

  Ray Bradbury

  Lonely, World, Fame

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• Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society.

  Bertrand Russell

  Home, Diversity, Would Be

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.46, Routledge

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• But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.

  Carre Otis

  Yoga, Elements, Movement

  "Flexibility, Inside and Out" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the political status of an individual. It raises a rival royalty in a monarchy. 'Tis king against king. It is ever a romance of history in all dynasties--the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect. It creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down, and to which he must often succumb.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Giving, Romance

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• Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist--nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Men, Divinity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.241, Harvard University Press

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• Philosophers have widely differed as to the seat of the soul, and St. Paul has told us that out of the heart proceed murmurings; but there can be no doubt that the seat of perfect contentment is in the head, for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Perfect, Soul

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.91

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• Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  War, Long, Energy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.125

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• It is your soul's journey to enroll the ego in the quest for the ultimate victory - the evolution of your own individual consciousness.

  Debbie Ford

  Journey, Ego, Soul

  Debbie Ford (2009). “The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse: A Breakthrough Program for Connecting with Your Soul's Deepest Purpose”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• You need a place where you can explain yourself. You can write as much or as little as you would like, but the words will be all yours. You can create the context. You can make sure that all issues are addressed. You can take issue with individuals or the media as a whole. Your words, your message.

  Mark Cuban

  Writing, Media, Issues

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• Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.

  Hill Harper

  Impact, Bottom, Happens

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• As an individual doing a podcast, you don't get even remotely rich. It's not something to do for money.

  Jeff Garlin

  Rich

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• Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority.

  Janez Drnovsek

  Dream, Sex, Reality

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• My 'Idea of India' calls not just for tolerance, but a celebration of all points of view. Where the sensibilities of every individual are respected

  Narendra Modi

  Views, Ideas, Tolerance

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