Individual Quotes - Page 27

• As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness; the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses, the second class perceive that the senses are not final and say, The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell. The materialist insists on facts, on history, on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man; the idealists on the power of Thought and Will, on inspiration, on miracle, on individual culture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4265, Delphi Classics

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• The deeds of love are less questionable than any action of an individual can be, for, it being founded on the rarest mutual respect, the parties incessantly stimulate each other to a loftier and purer life, and the act in which they are associated must be pure and noble indeed, for innocence and purity can have no equal. In this relation we deal with one whom we respect more religiously even than we respect our better selves, and we shall necessarily conduct as in the presence of God. What presence can be more awful to the lover than the presence of his beloved?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Sex, Party

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.65, Yale University Press

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• It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

  William Faulkner

  Ambition, Leaving, My Ambition

  William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). “Selected letters of William Faulkner”, Vintage

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• As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Fancy, Limitless, Feels

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “Eureka”, p.68, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I could have wished that the reputations of many brave men were not to be imperilled in the mouth of a single individual, to stand or fall according as he spoke well or ill. For it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth.

  Thucydides

  Fall, Men, Brave

  Thucydides, Ruth Finnegan “History of Greece”, Lulu.com

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• Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow.

  Rajneesh

  Nature, Responsibility, Grows

  "Satyam, Shivam, Sundram: Truth, Godliness, Beauty". Book by Rajneesh, 1988.

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• Child! Turn your face to the light, to the science, to the reason, to the truth, to the peace! Child! Be modern, be compassionate, be individual, and be independent! Child! Don't be the man of anyone or any system, don't believe in any religious stories, and don't ever be silent against any oppressor! Child, turn your face to the light and walk towards the light!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Religious, Peace, Children

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• We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.

  Pope Francis

  Peace, Freedom, Men

  "Pope Francis declares holy war on terror in Vatican Easter Mass service" by Louie Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. April 5, 2015.

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• As to freedom, it is cherished, it is hard to come by, it is hard to hang on to. But freedom without responsibility is chaos, so to those who push the idea that freedom would allow an individual to do anything, anywhere, at any time, I reject, your freedom ends where my ability to raise my family safely begins. So I would urge every American to vaccinate their children and I would reject any effort to stop vaccinations until someone can show me a scientific reason to do so.

  Lindsey Graham

  Children, Freedom, Responsibility

  "Graham rebukes Paul on vaccines" By Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2015.

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• Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Change, Country, Reality

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• You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues

  C. Wright Mills

  Issues, Historical, Trouble

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• Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.

  Carl Rogers

  Choices, Groups, Allowance

  "Carl Rogers on Personal Power" by Carl Rogers, (p. 113), 1977.

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• While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long-term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases...

  Gavin Schmidt

  Change, Years, Data

  "Global warming made 2014 a record hot year - in animated graphics" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2015.

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• Why do soldiers fight? They join because they believe in a higher cause -- protecting religion, their nation, defending against a foreign nation. But why do soldier stay and fight? Soldiers aren't individuals. They are part of a unit. And that unit is led by a commander. If they don't trust their commander ... if there is no leadership, there is nothing.

  Peter R. Mansoor

  Leadership, Believe, Fighting

  "What's wrong with the Iraqi army?" by Ashley Fantz, www.cnn.com. May 26, 2015.

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• Whatever be our individual, social or other interests, we should not forget that we have only one cosmic home, Earth.

  Abhay Kumar

  Home, Earth, Forget

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• This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal preferences without consideration for their effect upon others brings in the end nothing but ruin and devastation.

  Hortense Odlum

  Expression, Desire, Devastation

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• Parents find many different ways to work their way through the assertiveness of their two-year-olds, but seeing that assertiveness as positive energy being directed toward growth as a competent individual may open up some new possibilities.

  Fred Rogers

  Years, Two Year Olds, Parent

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• To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service. The individual refrains and the commonwealth demands.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Mean, Sacrifice, Self

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1929.

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• Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to which they can pass with pleasure and expedition by means of ever-improving transportation, will be able to tune in their television and radio to the moving picture lecture of, let us say, President Lowell of Harvard; the professor of Mathematics of Oxford; of the doctor of Indian antiquities of Delhi, etc.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Moving, Mean

  "4D Timelock". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1928.

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• What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression
  of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Taken, Humble, Technology

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1973). “Earth, Inc.”, p.20, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Now, everybody always says there's no 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the
  team. So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.

  Nick Saban

  Team, Winning, Thinking

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• More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Mean, Thinking, Parent

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development which our society is pursuing. A purely economic and technological understanding of progress, to the extent that it fails to acknowledge its intrinsic limitations and to take into consideration the integral good of humanity, will inevitably provoke negative consequences for individuals, peoples and creation itself.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Fate, Rivers, Water

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• While in some cases the damage already done may well be irreversible, in many other cases it can still be halted. It is necessary, however, that the entire human community - individuals, States and international bodies - take seriously the responsibility that is theirs.

  Pope John Paul II

  Responsibility, Community, Environmental

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• No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.

  Wendell Berry

  Environmental, Generations, Life Is

  Wendell Berry (2001). “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition”, Counterpoint Press

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