"The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience."
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"The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional."
"Nations have their ego, just like individuals."
"I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends."
"Omens are the individual language in which God talks to you. My omens are not your omens."
"You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more."
"The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual."
"A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law."
"We are the universe pretending to be individuals."
"It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone."
"All individuals have the same value, not to be determined by market price. They're made in the image and likeness of God."
"There is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility."
"An individual human existence should be like a river"
"Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder."
"No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all."
"Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual."
"One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy."
"The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will."
"The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation."
"...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty."