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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”

“You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play.”

Knows Play Government Individual Force Causes Natural Effort Economy Taken Bases Investment Accountability

Author:Mike Lee

“Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.”

Made Individual Taken Progress Gains Granted Taken For Granted

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature.”

Humanity Individual Taken Capitalism Function Collectives Emancipation

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this freedom, and this activity are employed in the service of an ideal higher than that of an ordinary man taken by himself.”

Men Individual Nations Numbers Taken Higher Activity Ordinary Ideals Active Employed Composing Ordinary Man

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Anarchists generally make use if the word "State" to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, etc., by means of which management of their own affairs, the guidance of their personal conduct, and the care of ensuring their own safety are taken from the people and confided to certain individuals, and these, whether by usurpation or delegation, are invested with the right to make laws over and for all, and to constrain the public to respect them, making use of the collective force of the community to this end.”

“A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, "It lightens and it thunders ," is conjunctive, "It lightens or it thunders" is disjunctive. Each such individual act of connecting a pair of statements is a new monad for the mathematician .”

May Individual Taken Example Statements Pairs Mathematician Thunder Connecting

Book:Writings of Charles S. Peirce: 1857-1866

Source: Writings of Charles S. Peirce: 1857-1866

“Socialism, whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, is all about disindividuation, a steady, relentless erasure of the individual differences among us, everything that makes us who we are. 'Everybody in, nobody out!' is the marching mantra of militant collectivized medicine, but it accurately describes all other aspects of collectivism as well. No alternatives allowed, no choices, no individualism, no individuality, and ultimately, no individuation.”

“If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.”

Ifs Wanted Individual Taken Tennis

Author:Ruud Gullit

“It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context. In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience.”

Matter Government Purpose Individual Left Sides Religious Prayer Taken Atheism Citizens Exercise Conscience Function Mere Positive Atheism Instance Sole Secular Acknowledgment

Author:Barbara Brandriff Crabb

“I'm always trying to be the best, on and off the pitch, is also very important. I've always taken things very seriously, since I was very young, and that's reflected in my career. Always being nominated, winning trophies for the club or individual awards, that's the culmination of many years of dedication, hard work and professionalism and that makes me very happy.”

“I don't believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.”

Way Believe Stills Certain Choices Individual Taken Influence Hero Circumstances Don't Believe Villain Wrong Way

Book:New Selected Essays: Where I Live

Source: New Selected Essays: Where I Live

“The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.”

Men Way Law Order Individual Taken Objects Sick Institutions Illness Defense Transformed Isolated Devoted Law And Order Technicians Sick Man

Book:The Practice of Everyday Life

Source: The Practice of Everyday Life

“From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.”

Giving Real States Used Certain Culture Individual Struggle Taken Advantage Independence Tired Spares Exceptional Exhausting

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.”

People Persons Country Certain Individual Taken Happened Childhood Return Siege Under Siege

Book:Black Dreams

Source: Black Dreams

“The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those chamaleons of popularity who find their joy, not in the sweet breath of Apollo, but in the smell of the crowd. And not in mind: Do not be taken in by what are miracles to the populace, for the ignorant do not rise above marveling. Thus the stupidity of a crowd is lost in admiration, even as the brain of an individual uncovers the trick.”

Mind Joy Individual Lost Brain Taken Sweet Miracle Breaths Satisfaction Crowds Smell Stupidity Tricks Ignorant Admiration Popularity Multitudes Rise Above Apollo Discerning Marveling

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.”

Made Eye Next Individual Wealth Taken Feet Gains Raises Longing Granted Ceilings Luminous Taken For Granted Disregarded

Book:Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays

Source: Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays

“The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every civilization. When a civilization becomes so standardized that the individual can no longer make an imprint on it, then that civilization is dying. The mass mind has taken over and another set of national glories is heading for history's scrap heap.”

Mind Art Artist Individual Goal Taken Dying Civilization Mass Glory Blind Headings Scrap

Author:Elie Faure

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