Quotes with individual

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  • Alfred A. Montapert The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Albert Einstein The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Norman Cousins The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Booker T. Washington The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Eric Hoffer The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Marcel Duchamp The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
    Marcel Duchamp
    French painter and sculptor (1887 - 1968)
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  • Junius The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • Sigmund Freud The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • C. Wright Mills The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Billy Beane The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Eugenio Montale The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.
    Eugenio Montale
    Italian poet (1896 - 1981)
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  • Daniel Webster The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Albert Camus 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.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Michel de Certeau The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
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  • Rick Pitino The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.
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  • Agnes Repplier The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
    The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Chimamanda Adichie The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.
    We moeten allemaal feminist zijn (2014)
    Chimamanda Adichie
    Nigerian poet (1977 - )
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  • Arthur Keith The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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