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title: "7 Common Individual Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-early-arrive-at-the-great-discovery-that-there-is-one-mind-common/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [There is one mind common to all individual men](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-one-mind-common-to-all-individual-men/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/what-is-unique-about-the-i-hides-itself-exactly-in-what-is/)

[Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

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> [“The reaction on the part of the apes, limited as it was to about one subject in every three or four, has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanne-k-langer/the-reaction-on-the-part-of-the-apes-limited-as-it-was-to-about-one/)

[Susanne K. Langer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanne-k-langer/)

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> [We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/letitia-elizabeth-landon/we-are-ourselves-the-stumbling-blocks-in-the-way-of-our-happiness/)

[Letitia Elizabeth Landon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/letitia-elizabeth-landon/)

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> [There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-one-mind-common-to-all-individual-men-every-man-is-an-inlet/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-one-mind-common-to-all-individual-men-every-man-is-an-inlet-2/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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