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“We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it”

“Manage through the uncertainties. Practice appropriate actions and participate in healthy choices. Value and celebrate the loyalty of the individuals around you: celebrate their competencies and successes, as well as your own. Build up your circle and reinforce it at every opportunity.”

Wells Action Values Choices Opportunity Individual Practice Healthy Loyalty Circles Manage Celebrate Uncertainty Appropriate Cheerfulness Competencies Healthy Choices

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“There are many individual senators, including myself, who have said that, at an appropriate time after disposing of the impeachment matter, that an appropriate censure resolution that seems to me should be considered by the Congress.”

Should Said Matter Seems Individual Including Congress Appropriate Resolution Senators Censure Impeachment Appropriate Time

Author:Carl Levin

“We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.”

Knows Giving Individual Balance Please Prove Members Dollars Charity Injustice Congress Appropriate Permit Acts Of Charity Public Money

Author:Davy Crockett

“It's really seeing student involvement … as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.”

Needs Desire Opportunity Individual Given Seeing Students Educational Variety Appropriate Involvement

Author:Adam Fletcher

“Before the revolution I thought there are appropriate individuals who would do the job according to Islam, therefore I repeatedly said that clerics would go after their own job. Then I saw that most of them were inappropriate individuals and I found out that what I said was not true, so I came and clearly announced that I was wrong.”

Said Jobs Found Individual Saws Revolution Islam Appropriate Inappropriate

Author:Ruhollah Khomeini

“Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.”

Way Certain Values Individual Social Moral Principles Treats Characteristics Organized Appropriate

Author:Erving Goffman

“Regardless of the extent to which the media promote "politically correct," but scientifically wrong, resolutions from professional societies such as the American Anthropological Association, facts remain facts and require appropriate scientific, not political or ideological, explanation. None of this should be construed as meaning that environmental factors play no part in individual and group differences. But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these differences becomes more firmly established than ever.”

“Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.”

Needs Mind Mean States Moments Form Individual Creation Particular Expression Mood Rhythm Release Colour Appropriate State Of Mind Imperatives Individual Work

Author:Lyonel Feininger

“Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.”

Giving May Government Individual Force Attention Atheism Influence Claims Positive Atheism Tendencies Appropriate Reverence Consistency Persuasion Permanence

Book:Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness

Source: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness

“the term 'androgyny' ... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and women, are not rigidly assigned. Androgyny seeks to liberate the individual from the confines of the appropriate.”

Men Humans Individual Sex Term Conditions Men And Women Gender Impulse Characteristics Appropriate Androgyny

Book:Toward a recognition of androgyny

Source: Toward a recognition of androgyny

“Individuals possessing moderate-sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they distinguish themselves, but they sink when difficulties accumulate around them. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their appropriate place; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth.”

Persons Hands Individual Energy Enjoy Common Brain Circumstances Ordinary Difficulty Appropriate Spheres Scope Moderates Possessing

Book:A System of Phrenology

Source: A System of Phrenology

“I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.”

People Feelings Wanted Individual Bases Appropriate Making People Happy

Author:Dan Harmon