Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
What is the evolutionary value of blushing? It seems not to be to our advantage to do it, to involuntarily reveal our… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Theres something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
“In Tar Baby , the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We meditate alone but live our lives with other people; a gap is inevitable. If our path is to lead to less… — Greg Kramer Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The only legitimate interpretation of the concept of the "public" is that it's a highly heterogeneous group of people, and I cannot… — Wang Jianwei Copy Share Image
The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
Every human being is inherently a unique and individual form of life. He or she is made like that. But there is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Winners expect to win before the contest starts; losers don't. Any individual becomes what he or she thinks about most. If you… — Wade Schalles Copy Share Image
I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Attaching the word marriage to the association of same-sex individuals mistakenly presumes that marriage is principally a matter of adult benefits and… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I like to compare the two to a quarterback and a lineman. Being a brakeman is very physical and success is mostly… — Elana Meyers Copy Share Image
Women are looking out for other women and their children. There are some great nannies, and there are some horrible nannies. And… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share Image
Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
When our individual life force enters our fetal body, the moment in which we become truly human, it passes through the pineal… — Rick Strassman Copy Share Image
Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I believe in teaching just a few students, as teaching requires a constant alert observation on each individual in order to establish… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler's later thought succumbs to… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
The everyday world, as Kant proved, is mere appearance. But it is also the only world in which we can make sense… — Julian Young Copy Share Image
A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
In Russia, the moment a person opens his mouth you know where he's from. There's the uniformity of experience of an individual… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think when you grow up living next to your grandparents and cousins and you're 300 meters from the family offices and… — Margherita Missoni Copy Share Image
If someone who is poor says, 'I may not have much money, but for me, what's really important is to have a… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
I'd say the most important criteria is vision. What is your vision for the party? Do you have a vision to strengthen… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
All work, the genuine work which we must achieve, is that which is most difficult and painful: the work on ourselves. If… — Jean Gebser Copy Share Image
Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
