Individual Quotes
6324 Individual quotes by 3344 unique authors
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The Bully has a Jekyll and Hyde nature - is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one…
— Tim Field
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From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another perspective. They also…
— George W. Bush
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The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One…
— Henri Matisse
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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of…
— Denis Waitley
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Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries…
— Marion Woodman
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The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus...Whoever has read the 'Weekly' knows I hold abortion (except to save the…
— Victoria Woodhull
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There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual in a population…
— Ernst Mayr
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Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.
— George Saunders
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On her daughter Deva: I didn't have familiarity with children. I'm learning day after day, with her. And what impress me the most is that…
— Monica Bellucci
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No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of men,…
— James Madison
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It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful…
— Thomas Jefferson
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From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill…
— Pete du Pont
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Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and…
— John Ashcroft
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...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I believe.....this is my final word......I believe that I'm supporting the Constitution of the United States which does not give the right for any individual…
— Jan Schakowsky
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Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence of the environment,…
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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If nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior…
— Adolf Hitler
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The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.
— James Monroe
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The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose, his…
— Murray Rothbard
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Each individual`s way is going to be different. Never follow anybody. That is the greatest calamity that can happen to a man. Once you start…
— Rajneesh
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Try to find your individuality, your integrity, and make the effort of not compromising. Because the more you compromise, the less you are an individual.…
— Rajneesh
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