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It's the individual effort of everybody working together towards a collective goal that causes real, effective change in America and in the world.
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!
Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in that country consistent with budgetary discipline.
That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.
The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
For me, honestly, it's not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It's about what I've got to do and how I can contribute to the team.
It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
If you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.
The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing.
If anything is due to a corporation, it is not due to the individual members thereof, nor do the members individually owe what the corporation owes.
Each individual should work for himself. People will not sacrifice themselves for the company. They come to work at the company to enjoy themselves.
On Pinwheel, you can find and leave notes all around the world. The notes can be public or private, shared with an individual, a group, or everyone.
I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.
Both individual fulfillment and the ecological balance of life on this planet are best served by dying when our inherent biology decrees that we do.
I'm just a huge fan of Joe Carnahan. He's such a charismatic individual and somebody that just applies every part of himself to the project he's in.
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.
We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.
It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.
Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.
I prefer, and it turns out to be the truth, that I always have in my movies an ensemble of actors, but not just one individual doing the whole movie.
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?
In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
In fact, every one of us - every nation, every individual begins hundreds, perhaps thousands of years prior to the date that appears in the passport.
I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.
Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.
Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.
The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
I still think, from an individual perspective, the best deal investment you can make is to buy a primary residence that you're the owner-occupier of.
Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others.
Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.
The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.
Sometimes I pine for the era of Miss Manners, when there were hard and fast rules dictating a well-bred individual's behaviour in any given situation.
Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by consuming its products.
An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation.
You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.
If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.
I don't think anybody can be held accountable or responsible for anyone's behaviors expect the individual. This goes beyond that particular situation.
Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?