"Races don't fall in love, genders don't fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love."
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"No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood."
"Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody."
"Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim."
"The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes."
"Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his."
"Just because an individual in his 30s hasn't found true love and, yes, there are opportunities to date but it also forces you to be more particular. In so many ways, you become more adamant about finding that right person and not allowing yourself to open up to just anybody."
"Individuals carry their success or failure with them. It does not depend on outside conditions."
"Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience."
"Mankind is engaged in an eternal quest for that ‘something else' he hopes will bring him happiness, complete and unending.For those individual souls who have sought and found God, the search is over: He is that Something Else."
"The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day"
"Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses."
"History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that."
"An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place."
"What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them."
"The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society."
"The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists."
"The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is."
"When the individual feels, the community reels."
"The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper."