Nikola Tesla
Inventor, Electrical Engineer
"It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus."
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Marie Curie
Physicist, Chemist
"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about."
Al Pacino
Actor, Filmmaker
"Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals."
Sun Yat-sen
Revolutionary, Politician
"An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom."
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"By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good."
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"There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety."
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"An individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change."
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"Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul."
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"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless."
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"You don't have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be."
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"Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual"
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"[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them."
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"Always be yourself. There's only one you. You should embrace anything that you don't like about yourself because that's individual and that's you."
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"The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual"
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"It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals"
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"Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony."
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"Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth."
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"Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced."
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"Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects."
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"Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic."
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"There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective."
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"Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern."
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"Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to discern the truth in collective enterprise and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise."
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"No social stability without individual stability."
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