Individualism Quotes - Page 20

• In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Forever, World, Computer

  "Program Development by Stepwise Refinement". Communications of the ACM, 14 (4), April 1971.

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• When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.

  Vera Wang

  Dance, Wedding, Artist

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• She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Hymns, Snow

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.436, Penguin

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• Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

  Ayn Rand

  Witty, Humor, Mean

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.305, Penguin

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• To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

  Carroll Quigley

  Southern Italy, Spain, Influence

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• The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

  Thomas Paine

  Heart, Daggers, Superstitions

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• We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.

  Evo Morales

  Giving Up, Thinking, Luxury

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• The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Art

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• Italy is a divided country without a center.

  Christian Lacroix

  Country, Divided, Divided Country

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• While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life.

  Herbert Hoover

  Honesty, Character, Men

  Herbert Hoover (1934). “Challenge Liberty”

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• It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish....Countless people...will hate the new world order....and will die protesting against it.

  H. G. Wells

  Hate, Struggle, World Government

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• The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising weakness, since they deplete a civilization's vital energies and weaken its defensive or affirmative capacities.

  Guillaume Faye

  Civilization, Weakness, Energy

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• The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.

  Jean Piaget

  Self, Law, Causes

  Jean Piaget (2013). “The Construction Of Reality In The Child”, p.352, Routledge

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• Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Liberty, Libertarian, Collectives

  "Authority and Religious Liberty". Address before the Holy Name Society, Washington, D.C., archive.org. September 21, 1924.

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• And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.

  Claudia Cardinale

  Directors, Bigs, Categories

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2003.

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• Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.

  James Forrestal

  Russia, Accomplishment, Poison

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• To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.

  Cyril Cusack

  Integrity, Personality, Individuality

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• If a blending of individualism and of cooperative participation is a prerequisite to a democratic solution of the problems of a society of free men, it must also be noted that an atmosphere of freedom is required if these problems are to be met constructively and as they arise.

  Marshall Field

  Men, Atmosphere, Society

  Marshall Field (1945). “Freedom is More Than a Word”

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• I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work.

  Colin Mochrie

  Lines, Practicals, Practical Joke

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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