Individual Quotes - Page 28

• We are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sleep, Perspective, Environmental

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• We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical growth any more than our progress as individuals has to be defined in terms of physical growth. Physical growth of the body reaches a limit, but the character and the soul of the individual continues to grow, or at least has a chance to continue, often to our last breath. It is simple minded to define our well being in material terms, when that well-being has an aesthetic dimension, and intellectual dimension, a moral dimension.

  Wes Jackson

  Character, Simple, Soul

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• The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of the countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons. Who we are as a society, is the synergistic accumulation of who we are as individuals... Small changes that seem insignificant in isolation can be great contributions when they are simultaneously undertaken by many others.

  Duane Elgin

  Character, Small Changes, Environmental

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• And the desire to own property, to take for ourselves things which in no way belong to us, does not stop short at the sun. The air is already bought and sold as a commodity, by health resorts. And what of water? Or waterpower? Why should the earth be parceled out into private hands? Is it any different from the sun? No; the earth belongs to the people who live on it. God intended it for them, but it has been taken over by private individuals. Privare means to steal. Thus private property is stolen property - property stolen from God and from humankind!

  Eberhard Arnold

  Taken, Mean, Air

  Eberhard Arnold, Johann Christoph Arnold (2000). “Eberhard Arnold: Writings Selected with an Introduction”, p.94, The Plough Publishing House

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• Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common heritage, a few simple beliefs recur: that all are indeed members of the same human family, that all share in responsibility for the others, that each is capable of responding directly to divine guidance. To seek to translate these into practical action with regard to soil or petroleum or the fish of the sea is not necessarily to do what is directly effective in changing society.

  Gilbert F. White

  Responsibility, Simple, Sea

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• While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences of the resulting increased pollution. The poor continue to live in greatest proximity to the sources of pollution, the infrastructure and machinery of industry. They work in the most polluted and physically dangerous workplaces. And these same individuals, living and working closest to the sources of environmental catastrophe, are also the ones most lacking decent health care.

  James H. Cone

  Technological Development, Environmental, Bears

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• What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we regulate this activity from outside; we must leave entirely to each individual
  its shaping and its extension. From every point of view, then, world- and life-affirmation and ethics are non-rational, and we must have the courage to admit it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Mean, Views, World

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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• Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language.

  Charles Scribner IV

  Book, Communication, Reading

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• Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the
  body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul
  is ancient, the stuff of stars.

  Normandi Ellis

  Stars, Philosophy, Soul

  Normandi Ellis (1995). “Dreams of Isis: A Woman's Spiritual Sojourn”, Quest Books

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• Ojibwe prophecy speaks of a time during the seventh fire when our people will have a choice between two paths. The first path is well worn and scorched. The second path is new and green. It is our choice as communities and as individuals how we will proceed.

  Winona LaDuke

  Two, Fire, People

  "Winona LaDuke Pledges Help for Native Tribes Facing BP Oil" by Georgianne Nienaber, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2010.

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• [T]rue socialism must be voluntary - not coerced. Even in the most complete system of society we can conceive the individual must still have rights and property. He must appropriate food to sustain his life. He must wear clothes which are his. He must have his private and exclusive apartment, and must have the right to be in some place on God's earth from which he cannot be evicted by landlord of society.

  Joshua K. Ingalls

  Rights, Clothes, Earth

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• In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. They don't confine collaboration to their own individual schools and to just implementing other people's ideas.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Teacher, School, Government

  "The Global Search for Education: What Is the Fourth Way?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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• Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Beautiful, Animal, Unusual

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• Fundamentally, the answers to our challenges in healthcare relies in engaging and empowering the individual.

  Elizabeth Holmes

  Empowering, Challenges, Answers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to those who serve or have served in our countrys military, as well as to the families of those individuals. Whether protecting our freedoms in foreign fields or making contributions here at home, the value these men and women bring to the American workforce and our way of life is beyond measure.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Gratitude, Military, Home

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• Cash, though, is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent... When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

  Warren Buffett

  Home, Oxygen, Mind

  "Warren Buffett busts a cash myth". Warren Buffett's 2014 annual letter to the shareholders of his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, www.valueresearchonline.com. March 4, 2015.

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• Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

  Babatunde Osotimehin

  Rights, Desire, Identity

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• I've talked to many individuals who want to discuss their problems. But they don't really have problems. They have chosen to live in the wrong direction. They don't need a solution. They need a new direction.

  Andy Stanley

  Needs, Want, Problem

  Andy Stanley (2011). “The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• While many governments and well-meaning individuals have redefined marriage, the Lord has not.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Government, Lord, Wells

  "Spiritual Whirlwinds". Neil L. Andersen's speech at the biannual general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. April 2014.

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• Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.

  Tom Chatfield

  Book, Mean, Cutting

  "Do writers need paper?" by Tom Chatfield, www.prospectmagazine.co.uk. October 20, 2010.

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• I believe a family can be like that sports team. A successful family wins as a team. But if its members are intent upon winning their own individual battles with one another, the team loses. A winning solution is to work out the differences and, when it's over, let it be over. Then they can get back in the game as a team.

  Steve Goodier

  Sports, Team, Believe

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• Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person-flawed, complex, striving-you've reached beyond stereotype.

  Hazel Rochman

  Book, Differences, People

  Hazel Rochman (1993). “Against Borders: Promoting Books for a Multicultural World”, Chicago : American Library Association

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• Unlike the book, with a documentary, you get a chance to show much more texture and color. Film gives you get a chance to focus on much more individuals who are pivotal in changing the landscape of American culture.

  Steve Stoute

  Book, Color, Giving

  Source: deadline.com

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• I sensed that women wanted to be a little different. My fluidity gave them a way of interpreting their bodies in a more personal, individual way.

  Giorgio Armani

  Different, Body, Fluidity

  Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• In your bed tonight, turn off all of the lights and make sure that there is no noise. There is something that you will hear. It is probably that branch slapping the window but you better believe that your mind is going to go to some sick individual tapping on the glass because he wants to get your attention to come to the window for when you do you will be grabbed through it and pulled outside. That happens to me all of the time.

  Marcus Dunstan

  Believe, Glasses, Light

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