"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for."
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"The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread."
"We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions"
"One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights."
"If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all."
"Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals."
"An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true."
"There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago."
"Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together."
"As one individual changes, the system changes."
"What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity."
"Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine."
"Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered."
"What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals."
"Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a better price, also, or we're obsolete."
"Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me."
"The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game."
"It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him."
"There is no i in team, but there is no team without individuals."
"Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities."