Individual Quotes
6324 Individual quotes by 3344 unique authors
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So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from…
— Edith Hamilton
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are…
— Langston Hughes
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To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship...is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but that…
— Geoffrey Sampson
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We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.
— Deborah Tannen
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It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still…
— R. H. Tawney
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Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job,…
— Whitney M. Young
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Words like 'freedom', 'justice' and 'democracy' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It…
— James A. Baldwin
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I would like to appeal to all those in whose hands the future of mankind lies, to use their power not to destroy or kill,…
— Poul Hartling
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Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known…
— June Jordan
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To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and…
— William J. Clinton
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The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his "mistakes." The more a child's work is full of these individual mistakes the…
— Franz Cizek
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The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself…
— Unknown Author
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
— Jane Goodall
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.
— Marie Curie
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... I vowed that I would always respect the right of an individual to kill himself. Whether suicide was a moral or immoral act I…
— Phillip Lopate
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The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the…
— Sun Tzu
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A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which are necessary in…
— Murray Rothbard
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Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent…
— J. William Fulbright
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Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs…
— Hugh Mackay
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International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere
— Koichiro Matsuura
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Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed…
— Alfred Binet
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There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.
— Kathy Whitworth
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No teacher should be required to accept in a class any individual whose conduct habitually interferes with the teaching of others.
— Unknown Author
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Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance,…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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