Individuals Quotes
1990 Individuals quotes by 1368 unique authors
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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be…
— Hannah Arendt
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One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal…
— Jeff Bridges
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Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most…
— Peter McWilliams
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Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs…
— Natalie Portman
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As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to…
— Julia Gillard
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Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to…
— Noam Chomsky
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Individuals of all ages can make an important difference in the overall health of our ocean by the actions they take every day. Simple things…
— Ted Danson
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of…
— Andre Gide
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Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.
— Thorstein Veblen
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It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or reasonable. The race…
— Edwin Way Teale
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If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for…
— Albert Einstein
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Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly…
— Albert Einstein
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For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the…
— Albert Einstein
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Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this dream of a god or…
— Theodore Dreiser
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Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise,…
— Joseph Conrad
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Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Everybody wants to talk about NBA players being selfish and arrogant and individuals. But what you saw today was a team bonding and facing adversity…
— Kobe Bryant
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If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their…
— Alfred Kinsey
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In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings…
— Sigmund Freud
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
— Berthold Auerbach
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary…
— Laura Hillenbrand
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Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a…
— Alfred Whitney Griswold
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Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.
— Ronald Reagan
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The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
— Henry David Thoreau
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