“A person who is brilliantly talented and successful at work but irrational and irresponsible in his or her private life may want… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
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Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
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..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
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Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then… — Chuck Lorre Copy Share Image
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“Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“In the heroic effort of the individual to attain universality, in the attempt to transcend the curse of individuation and to become… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we… — Will Self Copy Share Image
In fact, blockchain has the potential to fundamentally change how we share information, buy and sell things, interact with government, prove our… — Julie Sweet Copy Share Image
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“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare’s oft-quoted advice, “To thine own self be true,” runs deep in our philosophical DNA. Many of us are uncomfortable with the… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I think we have to go through everything we go through in our life, and I believe my purpose in life was… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
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Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“When my self is no longer the all-consuming preoccupation it once was, when I see it as one narrative thread among myriad… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
You're an original, an individual a masterpiece. Don't let your uniqueness make you shy. Don't be someone other than wonder you all.… — Shirley Copy Share Image
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As kids, we say stupid things, and because there's not a record of it, nobody is going to give you a hard… — Christopher Poole Copy Share Image
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...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I really didn't have… — Rachel Dolezal Copy Share Image
Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“ . . . Because of a lack of self-confidence and an inability to function independently . . .” It may be… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
Religion appears in so many contexts in WW1. Religion shaped the national identities and ambitions of several of the key players, especially… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
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