"Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect."
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"I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation."
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"We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost."
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"There are as many different religions as there are individuals."
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"That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society."
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"Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India."
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"Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life."
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"A bunch of individuals do the same thing because they learned from watching each other or somebody else. That's what we would call culture."
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"What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects."
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"The religion of Islam brings out of the individual all of his dormant potential."
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"A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation."
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"As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production."
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"The unspeakable visions of the individual."
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"Happiness is not an individual matter."
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"Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists."
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"The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book."
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"As long as an individual's alive, he will undergo experience in some form or other, and those experiences are stored up instant by instant. To stop experiencin' is to die."
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"It is hard to be an individual in Japan."
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"The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals."
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"[T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character."
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