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James Keller Inventor, Humanitarian
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"It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook."

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"Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority."

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Jorge Luis Borges Writer, Poet
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"This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe, and that these beings are the instruments and masks of divinity itself."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
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"It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all."

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Celia Green Psychologist
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"It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not your friend. It's not my friend. It's a very uncomfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government."

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