"Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished."
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"From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals."
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"When our founders created America, it was in the age of the printing press, when individuals could freely join the conversation. And that robust, democratic dialogue more often than not lifted up the best available evidence and asserted what was more likely to be true than not."
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"Circumstances beyond my individual control."
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"Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them."
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"There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions."
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"The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time."
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"Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth."
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"In every other aspect of their life, we have entertainment that is crafted almost to an individual. So they expect that from stand-up as well."
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"When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy."
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"In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation."
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"When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering."
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"Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species."
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"Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness."
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"I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live."
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"The toughest individual I've ever met in my life is Jim Kelly, No. 12."
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"Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression."
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"...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual."
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"As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time."
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"The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden."
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