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Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.

Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn't mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it's on an individual basis.

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not your friend. It's not my friend. It's a very uncomfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions.

Spiritual gifts, to put it as simply as I know how, are the more or less concrete and tangible ways in which the Holy Spirit manifests his presence in and through the individual members of the church.

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

Strong leaders don't plead with individuals to perform.

Stop making me feel good. If you are anti-Semitic, fine. If you don't like me personally, fine. But deal with me as an individual, not as a Jew.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

Style is a very personal thing and women should develop their own individual look.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Style is such a personal thing; it's your way to be an individual.

Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.

That living specimen of gall and hatred, that individual.

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.

Technology can also be used so that private individuals will have access to the way centralized decisions are being made.

That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.

That's the best part of the game, to see the smiles on their faces and the breakthroughs they have as individuals.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They also tend to be small. If you're small, you need less food - which is great in a situation where famine is everywhere.

Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.

Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects.

Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.

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

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.

The addictive experience is the totality of effect produced by an involvement; it stems from pharmacological and physiological sources, but takes its ultimate form from cultural and individual constructions of experience.

The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle.

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.

The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization.

The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.

The average individual spends many, many lifetimes meditating and seeking and chewing bubblegum and doing things like that to attain the experience of samadhi.

The assumption of being merely individuals is our greatest limitation.

The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by empirical observation.

The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals

The baggage in your individual life will weigh down your married life. Do something about it.

The Beatles changed the world. They certainly changed my world, and many, many other individuals as well.

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.

The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone.