"We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet."
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"If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices."
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"Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news."
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"Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness."
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"If a person is constantly evolving, constantly reading new material and being exposed to new material and growing in life, then you're becoming, hopefully, a more intelligent and well-rounded individual. If you're not then something's wrong and you're sliding back in the other direction."
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"nonviolence first changes the individual."
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"The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action."
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"God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter."
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"Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals."
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"When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent."
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"That's the best part of the game, to see the smiles on their faces and the breakthroughs they have as individuals."
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"An individual who can freely and with a clear heart do things because they're fun is a very sane person."
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"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'."
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"The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences."
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"My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual."
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"The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature."
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"When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength."
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"It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value."
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"In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom"
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"Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces."
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