"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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"Only individuals have a sense of responsibility."
"Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be."
"The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh."
"If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole."
"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."
"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."
"Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God."
"Peace in the world relies on individuals finding inner peace."
"The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others."
"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."
"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."
"Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs."
"Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious."
"It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring."
"An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation."
"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."
"The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government."
"People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals."
"Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family."