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• To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.

  Kathleen Norris

  Humility, Exercise, Self

  Kathleen Norris (1997). “The Cloister Walk”, p.25, Penguin

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• I didn't dare to think of anything then except the "facts." To get beneath the facts I would have had to be an artist, and one doesn't become an artist overnight. First you have to be crushed, to have your conflicting points of view annihilated. You have to be wiped out as a human being in order to be born again an individual. You have to be carbonized and mineralized in order to work upwards from the last common denominator of the self. You have to get beyond pity in order to feel from the very roots of your being.

  Henry Miller

  Artist, Thinking, Self

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.

  James Larkin

  Outcomes, Matter, Birth

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• There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.

  John Fahey

  Past, Guitar, Mysterious

  John Fahey (2000). “How bluegrass music destroyed my life: stories”, Drag City

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• When you have an individual that is committed to killing someone else, you can`t expect a restraining order or the police to provide 24-hour protection.

  William Bennett

  Order, Killing Someone, Police

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• Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early condition of the individual indicates that of the race,-that the best test of the affinities of a species are the stages through which it passes. So also it is in the case of man; the life of each individual is an epitome of the history of the race, and the gradual development of the child illustrates that of the species.

  John Lubbock

  Children, Science, Men

  Sir John Lubbock (1872). “Pre-historic Times: As Illustrated by Ancient Remains and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages”, p.570

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• It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

  Don Marquis

  Believe, Ego, Would Be

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• If we want to work out a policy for the present, we must examine the past and prepare for the future, discard the material and elevate the spirit, rely on the individual and exclude the mass.

  Lu Xun

  Past, Work Out, Want

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• I don't want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my films as a badge of pride. That's why I cherish all my bad reviews. If the critics start liking my movies, then I'm in deep trouble.

  John Carpenter

  Pride, Want, Film

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

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• When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.

  Paul Goodman

  Cities, Community, Village

  Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

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• Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

  John Burns

  Individual Effort, Poverty, Impossible

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• The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Powerful, One Day, Groups

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

  Michael Johnson

  Years, Careers, Gold

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• From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.

  Douglas Kennedy

  Doubt

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• The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists has greatly expanded.

  John Olver

  Country, Islamic, Numbers

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• A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual.

  Tony Parsons

  Tattoo, Looks

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• The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.

  John Roberts

  Care, May, Pay

  "US supreme court surprises with decision to uphold healthcare reform" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2012.

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• That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

  Andrew Thomas

  Outcomes, Judicial System, Cases

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• Truth Will Set U Free is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

  Corey Hart

  Honesty, Be True To Yourself, Belief

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• I believe that any individual who has spiritually awakened in our time, to the degree that he or she finds a higher and deeper motive for living, is going to be driven to fight the good fight in one way or another... And in order to fight the good fight, we have to engage, we have to get into the ring, not just stand outside it and be philosophers.

  Andrew Cohen

  Believe, Fighting, Order

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• In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

  George P. Baker

  Drama, Giving, Perfect

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• By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

  Adam Smith

  Invisible Hand, Done, Interest

  1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.4, ch.3.

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• I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.

  Kenneth Clark

  Believe, Genius, Given

  Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.220, Hachette UK

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• We'll probably only consider a handful of individuals. We'll bring up people who can accumulate either innings or at-bats, so we can hopefully gauge where they stand as a prospective Major Leaguer.

  Dan O'Brien

  People, Major League, Bats

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• The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

  Arthur Henderson

  Community, World, Prosperity

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