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The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . . In the Middle… — Joseph Campbell
You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you… — George Orwell
True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of… — Willard Libby
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. — Charles Sanders Peirce
It is clear from a common sense viewing of the program that coarse language is a part of the culture of the individuals being portrayed.… — Unknown Author
And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans… — John Shadegg
Omens are a language, it's the alphabet we develop to speak to the world's soul, or the universe's, or God's, whatever name you want to… — Paulo Coelho
I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These… — Madeleine Peyroux
A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent and… — Calvin Coolidge
The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men. — James Bryce
The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of… — Samuel Smiles
Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a blind devotion; in… — George William Curtis
For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that… — Barack Obama
I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else. — Abraham Lincoln
The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than… — Richard Dawkins
Children will, in my dream, be taught that laziness and narcissism are at the very root of human evil, and why this is so. .… — M. Scott Peck
Any real accomplishment in the world reflects the efforts of a lot of people. . . . For an individual to claim personal responsibility was… — Unknown Author
While new rights are attributed to or indeed almost presumed by the individual, life is not always protected as the primary value and the primordial… — Pope Francis
Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work together,… — Joshua Prince-Ramus
We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably… — Barack Obama
Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. — Barry Goldwater
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters… — Henry David Thoreau
The Thanksgiving tradition is, we gorge. Hey, what about at Thanksgiving we simply consume a considerable measure? However we do that consistently! Goodness. Imagine a… — Jim Gaffigan

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