"All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual."
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"Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility."
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"Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life."
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"Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet ."
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"Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal."
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"My focus is on a ring, and giving the best individual performance I can."
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"Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals."
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"As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not."
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"Jump off. You are a protected individual. Do not fear."
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"Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other."
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"Truth does not belong to an individual."
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"We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual."
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"I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith"
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"For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual."
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"Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual."
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"One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world."
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"When creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity"
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"the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it !"
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"Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most."
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"To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man, can refer only to the superficial and to the accidental; of necessity it remains shallow."
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