Individual Quotes - Page 33

• On aging societies, there is no reason why a country that has a lot of old people can't be prosperous if, during their working lives, individuals provide for their retirement.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Retirement, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It all would have been much better if individuals saved for their own old age.

  Milton Friedman

  Age, Saved, Has Beens

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The important issue is not how much inequality there is but how much opportunity there is for individuals to get out of the bottom classes and into the top. If there is enough movement upward, people will accept the efficiency of the markets. If you have opportunity, there is a great tolerance for inequality. That has been the saving grace of the American system.

  Milton Friedman

  Opportunity, Class, Issues

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories, to characterize the heroes and the heroines much more than they are characterized in Grimm. I like the psychological flatness of them, the fact that they're more like masks than individuals.

  Philip Pullman

  Hero, Stories, Done

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Powerful, Emotional, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In the highest government office, you have to be ready to bow out at any time, otherwise you are not a free individual anymore.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Government, Office, Bows

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What I try to encourage individuals to do is don't sweat the small stuff, sweat the big stuff.

  Chip Giller

  Sweat, Trying, Stuff

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I always thought that in modern history Chinese people are like a dish of sand, never really close together. But I think a dish of sand is a good metaphor because we have the Internet. We don't have to be physically united. You can be an individual and have your own set of values but join others in certain struggles. There is nothing more powerful than that.

  Ai Weiwei

  Powerful, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Football can teach us that although a team's individual players may be weak, it can still be successful if it uses common sense. Or that we should not attack anyone physically when we suffer a depressing defeat.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Football, Depressing, Team

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We like to say that India has the advantage of being a large market. We have provinces, we have the rule of law, we have a system of justice. But those are also weaknesses when compared with China. On the other hand, one of our strengths is that we are very individualistic, and as individuals we are very creative. But that, too, is a weakness, because it keeps us from working well together. Everyone thinks only about his own profit.

  Ratan Tata

  Thinking, Hands, Law

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• For a fight to be productive, or at least relevant, writers should fight over different demands they put upon writing (as an individual, private act) and literature (a network of relations in which we are all involved).

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Writing, Fighting, Different

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• Human beings look so different from each other, voices are so different, everything about us is so individual, and that's so exciting and juicy and appealing, and we're attached to these things and they're so fascinating and beautiful - I don't just mean model-beautiful, but all the individual forms that people can take.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Beautiful, Mean, Voice

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• What happens in a play is determined to a certain extent by what I thought might be interesting to have happen before I invented the characters, before they started taking over what happened, because they are three-dimensional individuals, and I cannot tell them what to do. Once I give them their identity and their nature, they start writing the play.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Character, Play

  Interview with Linda Leseman, www.believermag.com. September, 2013.

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• Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of the successful cooperators.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Children, Successful, Average

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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• America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Determination, Rights, Self

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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• So Ayurveda is a bunch of techniques and theories and practices that have been accumulated over many centuries in a way that we think about Ayurveda. But the Ayurvidya is the Shakti that has inspired the development of Ayurveda. It's inspiring the spread of Ayurveda into many other countries. And has to posses an individual before that individual can actually act as a vehicle for healing energy to move into the world.

  Robert Svoboda

  Country, Moving, Healing

  Source: wildyogi.info

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• Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

  Gary Hamel

  Perspective, Innovation, Different

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• If people start going to a desk, some one individual employees desk and they don't report to them... it's a sign that they believe that person can help them. So if you see that consistently, those are your barrels. Just promote them, give them more opportunity as fast as you can.

  Keith Rabois

  Believe, Opportunity, People

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• The beat literary movement is strong because of those very challenging and individual relationships and styles and contention and so on. So I just feel blessed by this kind of opportunity that came from it. It was a kind of seed.

  Anne Waldman

  Strong, Blessed, Opportunity

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• Small businesses forget how to be social. Everyone tries to do social media when they should just try being social. To be successful with social media, you have to treat each individual person just like you would in real life by establishing a genuine connection with them.

  Jeet Banerjee

  Real, Successful, Media

  Source: theimarketingcafe.com

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• When it comes to public policy, doing the right thing is more important than doing it for the right reason. The best way to get people to do what's right collectively is to make it the best thing for them to do individually. You have to give individuals a personal incentive to do what's right for society.

  Donald Shoup

  Giving, People, Important

  Source: la.streetsblog.org

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• The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Love, Life, Death

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• Critical Race Theory offers of discrimination frameworks as ways of understanding and eradicating racism. The focus on "discrimination" as the way to understand racism in the US has meant that racism is considered a question of discriminatory intentions - whether or not somebody intentionally left someone out or did something harmful because of their biased feelings about a person's race. This focus on individual racists with bad ideas hides the reality that racism exists wherever conditions of racialized maldistribution exist.

  Dean Spade

  Reality, Race, Ideas

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Law reforms in the US, ostensibly enacted to prohibit racism, have proven ineffective because they focus on bad intentions of individuals and fail to comprehend population-level conditions.

  Dean Spade

  Law, Racism, Focus

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Legal doctrine requiring a showing of evidence of racist intent and a narrow chain of causation has made it very difficult to prove in court that a person or group is experiencing racism because the standards are too narrow and too focused on individual intentions.

  Dean Spade

  Racism, Groups, Doctrine

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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