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It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations --past and present --are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia. -
Eric Hoffer
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A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. -
St Francis De Sales
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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. -
Robert Frost
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Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. -
Remy De Gourmont
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? -
Rabbi Hillel
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Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience. -
Albert Einstein
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In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. -
Hermann Hesse
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The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves. -
Marcel Duchamp
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The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole. -
Bernard Devoto
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Each man must have his ''I''; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble. -
Charles Horton Cooley
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own. -
Thomas Carlyle
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The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer. -
Hubert H Humphrey
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. -
James F Cooper
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