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• I think mathematics is a vast territory. The outskirts of mathematics are the outskirts of mathematical civilization. There are certain subjects that people learn about and gather together. Then there is a sort of inevitable development in those fields. You get to the point where a certain theorem is bound to be proved, independent of any particular individual, because it is just in the path of development.

  William Thurston

  Independent, Thinking, Civilization

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• Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

  Noam Chomsky

  Giving, Study, Currents

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• Humility is a fertile soil where spirituality grows and produces the fruit of inspiration to know what to do. It gives access to divine power to accomplish what must be done. An individual motivated by a desire for praise or recognition will not qualify to be taught by the Spirit. An individual who is arrogant or who lets his or her emotions influence decisions will not be powerfully led by the Spirit.

  Richard G. Scott

  Inspiration, Humility, Giving

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• My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know, and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such beings.

  Aleister Crowley

  Quality, Chance, Nervous

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• Personally, I believe there's a limitation to how much politics can change the world--but there's no limitation to how much individuals can change the world.

  Mariane Pearl

  Believe, World, Limitation

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• There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Struggle, Roots, Discipline

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• My favorite TV couple is Edith and Archie Bunker. Because they were such individuals that I can't imagine anyone else playing them. And I think that Archie was one of the greatest characters ever on television. Even with his flaws, you loved him.

  Michael Jai White

  Couple, Character, Thinking

  "Tasha Smith and Michael Jai White: Reunited and Ready for Prime Time". Interview with Terry Shropshire, rollingout.com. November 10, 2011.

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• There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.

  Mustafa Akyol

  Islamic, Men, Ideas

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• I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for.

  Ian Anderson

  Play, People, Community

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• The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!

  Alan Watts

  Rejection, Ego, Identity

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.56, Souvenir Press

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• The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, - that we find we have (a common Nature) - one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Art, Men

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• In the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd. He only sees each individual

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Eye, Crowds, Spirit

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• Frankly speaking, I hate comparisons. Two individuals are doing two different films, playing two different characters: how can you compare them? It is not fair to get into ratings. It really doesn't matter what I think about other actresses; what matters is what the directors think of them when they are casting them in a project, because I think it's the director who's behind a successful piece of cinema.

  Katrina Kaif

  Hate, Character, Successful

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• Even if you Can't Change the World, you Can Change Individuals

  Dan Howell

  World, Can't Change, Ifs

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• There is one Cosmic Essence, all-pervading, all-knowing, all-powerful. This nameless formless essence can be approached by any name, any form, any symbol that suites the taste of the individual. Follow your religion, but try to understand the real purpose behind all of the rituals and traditions, and experience that Oneness.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Powerful, Real, Essence

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• Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.

  Robert Grudin

  Regret, Anxiety, Cheerful

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The task of propaganda lies not in a scientific training of the individual, but rather in directing the masses toward certain facts, events, necessities, etc., the purpose being to move their importance into the masses' field of vision.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Moving, Training

  Adolf Hitler (1941). “Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated”

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• For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question "Who am I?" recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: "Since I do not understand 'Who I am,' I only know what I am not." The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate. The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.

  Carson McCullers

  Attitude, Hate, War

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• It is the individual artist who must act courageously in an effort to grow.

  Mary Carroll Nelson

  Artist, Effort, Growth

  Mary Carroll Nelson, Beth Ames Swartz (1984). “Connecting: the art of Beth Ames Swartz”, Northland Pub

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• Perspective should be learned - and then forgotten. The residue - a sensitivity to perspective - helps perception, varying with each individual and determined by his responsive needs.

  Nathan Goldstein

  Perspective, Perception, Needs

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• It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

  Immanuel Kant

  Immaturity, Natural, Difficult

  "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?". Essay by Immanuel Kant, 1784.

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• A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his enemy, and everytime you begin to hate that person and think of hating that person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points which will over-balance the bad points.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Thinking, Enemy

  "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• In the hands of a determined Secretary, the Foreign Service can be a splendid instrument, staffed by knowledgeable, discreet, and energetic individuals. They do require constant vigilance lest the convictions that led them into a penurious career tempt them to preempt decision-making.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Hands, Careers, Decision

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• Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery and would exist if all humanity forgets it, so it is with the laws that govern the spiritual world. The moral, ethical and spiritual relations between soul and soul and between individual spirits and the Father of all spirits were there before their discovery and would remain even if we forget them.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Father, Discovery

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.13, Advaita Ashrama

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• I don't want to extend my career for individual records. This is the time to go.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Careers, Records, Want

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