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• We deem valuable whatever is likely to meet our needs or wishes (individual values) and whatever is likely to help protect or attain social goals (social values). However, this is not a dichotomy, for some individual values, such as truth, are needed to secure some social values, such as mutual trust, and some social values, such as peace, are required to pursue some individual values, such as good health.

  Mario Bunge

  Social Values, Goal, Wish

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• I'm really interested in culture because it is such a powerful human force, particularly in America where we think it's all about the individual.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Powerful, Thinking, America

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into the world.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Expression, Literature, World

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Art, Thinking, Interfaces

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested in what writing can contribute to a kind of cultural intelligence.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Writing, Thinking, Kind

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• I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made me the person that I am?" How can I understand myself as a cultural creature as well as an individual? I'm really obsessed with that question, and always asking my students to consider it.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Always Trying, Asking, Students

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• Everyone has a spectrum of masculinity and femininity inside them. In every individual, a war of misogyny is raging. Every man is repressing and oppressing the femininity within themselves, raising up male values as governing values. Because that's what we've been taught to do, just as every woman has. Misogyny isn't just something that affects women. It affects men.

  Antony Hegarty

  War, Men, Males

  Source: thequietus.com

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• For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You have the literalness of a glass on a table - and at the same time of that evidential authority that you can't get around, there is the possibility of universalizing the subject - of getting the whole world into the picture.

  Bill Henson

  Reading, Glasses, Textbooks

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• As trans advocacy has institutionalized and developed, the context of the undemocratic nature of US non-profits and the ways that white, wealthy individuals can intensely influence the directions of advocacy have increasingly come to the surface for trans activists.

  Dean Spade

  White, Way, Influence

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

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• Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.

  Jack Higgins

  Hollywood, Mixtures, Good And Bad

  Source: www.blackfive.net

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• I think we need to think about Islamic tradition as a way of asking questions that cut across (and transgress) the assumptions of a purely secular world in which we already know how things stand for individual subjects as well as for societies.

  Talal Asad

  Islamic, Cutting, Thinking

  "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.eutopiainstitute.org. February 13, 2015.

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• American Catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive, to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities, and to rejecting every form of unjust discrimination. With countless other people of good will, they are likewise concerned that efforts to build a just and wisely ordered society respect their deepest concerns and their right to religious liberty.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Rights, People

  Speech at the White House, abcnews.go.com. September 23, 2015.

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• He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mind, World, Realizing

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.133, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Political, Politics

  Thomas Paine (2013). “The Thomas Paine Reader”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• Every individual who participated in the redistricting process knew that incumbency protection was a critical factor in producing the bizarre lines. ... Many of the oddest twists and turns of the Texas districts would never have been created if the Legislature had not been so intent on protecting party and incumbents.

  John Paul Stevens

  Party, Texas, Political

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• What makes this mentality dangerous is that when the team is held together by careerism and mindless partisanship, individual members are punished for thinking for themselves.

  Tom Coburn

  Team, Thinking, Political

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.79, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We Americans are free to give our opinions and make our voices heard. We work in a free enterprise economy that, for over 200 years, has lifted countless individuals above the circumstances of their birth to achieve their God-given potential. We have been an exceptional country because, here, people are free to practice their faiths and worship God.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Years, Practice

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Wise, Powerful, Mean

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “Stay Alive All Your Life”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, years and years ago, I started to ask myself three very simple questions, which dominated my life for many years. One of them was, "Why are organizations everywhere, whether commercial, social, or religious, increasingly unable to manage their affairs?" The second question was, "Why are individuals throughout the world increasingly in conflict with and alienated from the organizations of which they're a part?" And the third was, "Why are society and the biosphere increasingly in disarray?"

  Dee Hock

  Religious, Business, Simple

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• Executives run organizations. In business, we need executives who have clarity, people who are in touch with themselves. Then, in leadership and management positions, they can be good role models and leaders. The people I know who have really moved their organizations are scrupulous role models. They are so clear about honesty, integrity, openness, mutual self-respect, dignity for the individual, and creativity, that they don't deviate from these principles at all in their behavior.

  Michael Ray

  Running, Honesty, Business

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• I am a feminist. I'm trying to show the relationships between men and women, always the structural relations, not individual villains. I'd never make a husband a villain. I try very hard in my work not to - because if I made one man a villain, the rest would be off the hook. I'm interested in the system of oppression.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Husband, Men, Feminist

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• I am not a psychological novelist, and I try very hard not to allow the reader to see the plight or circumstances of the characters as individual psychological plights. That's my preference; still, a lot of people do read my novels as psychological studies, and they're right to read them that way too, if that's what they mean to them.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Character, Mean, People

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• We are free, in the West, to choose; we have real choice to pursue our own desires; we are free to set the goals and contents of our own lives; the West is made up of individuals who are free to decide what meaning to give to their lives-in short the glory of the West is that life is an open book,[1] while under Islam, life is a closed book, everything has been decided for you: God and the Holy Law set limits on the possible agenda of your life.

  Ibn Warraq

  Real, Book, Law

  Ibn Warraq (2010). “Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays”

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• The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.

  Ibn Warraq

  Responsibility, Rights, Miracle

  Ibn Warraq (2010). “Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays”

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• I find it is a challenge being a student athlete, but I am the kind of individual that loves challenges. I see this as my job rather than a chore so it makes it easier to get through the day. Regular students don’t spend 4 hours at the track, 2 in the training room and they especially don't have to watch everything they eat. I enjoy what I do immensely and take the good with the bad.

  Perdita Felicien

  Jobs, Athlete, Track

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