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“To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.”

Years Has Beens Real Hard Together Games Individual Sacrifice Team Hard Work Honor Determination South London South Africa Selected Olympic Games Relays

Author:Oscar Pistorius

“In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.”

World Has Beens Humanity Culture Individual Social Born Democracy Fire Projects Division Prisoner Hierarchy Puppets Emancipation Social Division

Author:Roberto Unger

“Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.”

Has Beens Individual Party Enemy Groups Proud Tools Democrat Socialist Environmentalist

Author:Don Young

“A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and the misplaced emphasis on the 'individual' has been corrected. God has set things up so that cultural endeavour is always a communal enterprise, done by trained men and women in concert, gripped by a spirit that is larger than each one individually and that pulls them together as they do their formative work.”

“Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.”

Has Beens Individual Study Psychology Discipline Academic Sociology Sociologists

Author:Richard Wall

“At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.”

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.”

People Thinking Men Way Has Beens Art Sometimes Literature Individual Leader Mass Accounts Average Department Immense Superiority Great Leader Exhibits Literature And Art

Book:Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days

Source: Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days

“We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.”

Has Beens Able Individual Influence Poet Fine England Insult Insulted

Book:Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

“All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.”

Knows Humans Has Beens Important Individual Progress Majority Historical Dues Opposition

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and be the authentic Self that is, has been and ever shall be.”

Has Beens Self Purpose Individual Existence Mystery Solve Authentic Self

Author:Michael Beckwith

“Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts. By contrast, our program involves a few, dedicated individuals who are focused entirely on making spaceflight affordable.”

Has Beens Government Individual Space Effort Program Missions Focused Flight Expensive Als Dedicated Contrast Affordable Epoch Spaceflight

Author:Burt Rutan

“I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Two Three Individual My Own Extras Jail Extra Time

Author:Steve Jobs

“We have to leave everything we have been, a perceiver, "I" as an individual. That is enlightenment.”

Has Beens Individual Enlightenment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses.”

Thinking Has Beens Made Individual Easier Response Made It

Book:Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

Source: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

“What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate of ideas or a cultural sensibility, embodying it in a character, and moving his characters into and out of one another's lives. What might have been a jumble of intellectual movements and colorful minor figures (...) is instead a subtle weave of entertaining narrative and astute interpretation.”

“When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.”

“Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.”

“It cannot be denied that Islam, regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity - by which expression I mean a social structure regulated by a legal system and animated by a specific ethical ideal - has been the chief formative factor in the life-history of the Muslims of India. It has furnished those basic emotions and loyalties which gradually unify scattered individuals and groups, and finally transform them into a well-defined people, possessing a moral consciousness of their own.”

Source: Speeches, Writings, and Statements of Iqbal

“Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth century their sole object would have been to write correctly, to conform to the manner of the period. In practice, their conforming individualism means an imitation, studiously concealed, of the eccentricities of poems which really are individual.”

Ifs Knows Writing Mean Has Beens Names Individual Practice Century Style Objects Periods Pursue Individualism Sole Imitation Conform Concealed Eccentricity Pseudo Individual Style

Author:Laura Riding

“I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been.The only thing I've sort of obviously extracted from the research of dreams is that I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to, obviously, the individual. Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.”

“The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not have been long forgotten.”

Men Long Has Beens Artist Individual Accounts Forgotten Individualism Revolt

Book:Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art

Source: Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art

“It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.”

Persons Has Beens Past Remember Individual Lost Nations Memories Knowing Conception Denied Not Knowing Deprived Disabled Dealing With It

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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