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The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.
Lev S. Vygotsky
The progression of thinking originates not from the particular to the collective, but from the collective to the specific.
2.
It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas.
Bhagat Singh
It is effortless to extinguish individuals but you cannot annihilate the concepts.
3.
It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.
Nikola Tesla
It will soon be conceivable to send radio signals around the globe so effortlessly that any person can bear and utilize their own contraption.
4.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.
Marie Curie
You cannot expect to construct a superior reality without developing the person.
5.
...by crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas.
Bhagat Singh
...by suppressing individuals, they cannot extinguish ideas.
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The strength of the team lies within the individual. And the strength of the individual lies within the team
Phil Jackson
The potency of the group lies within each person. And the power of each person lies within the collective.
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The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.
Albert Einstein
The peak of foolishness is most evidently demonstrated by the person who derides something they are unfamiliar with.
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God leads every soul by a separate path.
John of the Cross
God steers every individual along their own distinct course.
9.
Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
Al Pacino
'Either we recover now, collectively, or we will perish as separate entities.'
10.
How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.
Thomas Hobbes
What would be the outcome if every individual was permitted to adhere to or ignore the law based on their personal beliefs?
11.
An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.
Sun Yat-sen
An individual should not have too much liberty. A nation should have unrestricted autonomy.
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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
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The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.
Robert Owen
The utmost deprivation of mankind is felt when an individual must toil for a meager compensation from their overlords.
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All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.
Zeno of Citium
Everything is interconnected and an individual life is most fulfilling when it aligns with the larger universe.
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We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.
Chester Bennington
We hope our music will perpetually be greater than any one of us separately.
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
Pat Summitt
Collective accomplishment is a fallacy. Nobody prospers solely on their own.
17.
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
Thomas Jefferson
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I did not come to power to divide Somali but to unite them, and I will never deviate from this path. I shall respect a Somali individual as long as he deserves respect, but if he turns away from the correct path, then that is not my business.
Siad Barre
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Even if you Can't Change the World, you Can Change Individuals
Dan Howell
20.
Wrestlers Compete as Individuals, Yet the Sport Builds Comradery Like No Other.
Cael Sanderson
21.
Anybody that I ever dealt with knows that I'm a very focused individual, and when it comes to my work and what I do, you might have to play the back burner to that.
Young Jeezy
22.
All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.
Ian Curtis
23.
Eating is one of the most important aspects of living. I like indulging. I like to eat one food at a time, to savor each individual thing.
Marco Pierre White
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An individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change.
Jack Johnson
25.
The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.
Murray Rothbard
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In conclusion, the submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give,' brothers and sisters, are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us. However, when you and I finally submit ourselves, by letting our individual wills be swallowed up in God's will, then we are really giving something to Him! It is the only possession which is truly ours to give!
Neal A. Maxwell
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We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.
Bill W.
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A person without conviction is a weak, jellyfish type of individual who mindlessly follows the crowd.
Rick Warren
29.
Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.
Louis Althusser
30.
I strive for individual pictures that will burn in people's memories.
Steve McCurry
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It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual
Jeremy Bentham
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Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.
Saul Bellow
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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.
Arvid Carlsson
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Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the process of their dialogic interaction
Mikhail Bakhtin
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It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract
I. M. Pei
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B. F. Skinner
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You don't have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.
Joyce Meyer
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Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.
H. Rap Brown
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The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society.
Kenneth Kaunda
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To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.
Joey Ramone
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
John Locke
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Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.
John C. Bogle
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Always be yourself. There's only one you. You should embrace anything that you don't like about yourself because that's individual and that's you.
Jesy Nelson
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In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.
J. Paul Getty
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The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.
Robert Baden-Powell
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Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.
Cardinal Richelieu
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The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.
Alexander Hamilton
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The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual
Carl Jung