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I think one of the lessons we should have learned from what's happened with the current plan is that there is insurance coverage, but there is not really, many times, access to health care. If you have these high deductibles, there is every - there is a disincentive to get the policy, because you would have to pay another - I think the average of deductible policies on the individual market.

I think small groups have more collective wisdom than an individual.

I think that it is not right to deny a constitutional right based on simple, derogatory information that's been reported but not investigated. By contrast, to get on the No Fly List or the Selectee list, there has to be credible evidence that the individual is either involved in a terrorist plot, has terrorist associates or is providing material support to terrorists.

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.

I think the isolation in China also has to do with people's memories being wiped out, collective memories as well as individual memories, by the fact that the recent history has been constantly rewritten and revised.

I think the nation as a whole has a role in making sure that each individual, each citizen maximizes one's potential.

I think the Ronald Reagan tax reform proposals are a step toward distributive justice. They redistribute the tax burden more equitably and more progressively among individuals and call upon business to carry a somewhat larger proportion of the total tax load. Both of these are steps toward equity and distributive justice.

It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not. So I think it has more to do with that, a person's individual will to be master or servant. I've been both in my own life and I prefer the former.

[It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.

It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix.

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

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

It is not the individual's right to buy that is being protected. Rather, it is the seller's right to manage the individual.

It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or less pawns. We're moved about like chessmen by circumstances over which we have no control.

It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.

It is one thing to be well-read on a subject; it is quite another to be part of the subject itself. It is an unfortunate fact that there are many individuals who make magick there life without making their life magick.

It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.

It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.

It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

It is trust, but it is also courage - that you can leave an individual to his own devices and say "explore and experiment" and think, "It's okay, I'll see what it sounds like when I come back.

It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.

It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change the course of history. You never really know. But the whole thing is to work at the process of being in sync with the universe, so that everything will align at the proper time so that you can deliver that which is your life mission. And that's why we're here as individuals. And then there's our contribution to the collective. It makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

It must be remembered that even though the ego is the individual's inaccurate concept of him- or herself, it seems to be what the person is.

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

It's an individual sport, but collectively everybody shares the same motto that Ironman stands for: anything is possible.

I try to be really, really specific, because each character is really an individual and you have to find out what makes them unique.

It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come.