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“The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates”

Self Helping Spirit Individual Growth Effects Self Help Source Roots Genuine Genuine Smiles

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.”

Individual Creative Source Court Irrational Novelty

Book:Research Conference on the Identification of Creative Scientific Talent

Source: Research Conference on the Identification of Creative Scientific Talent

“It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.”

Hands Turns House Individual Environment Source Prison Manifestation Pollution Brutal Cursed Degradation Midas

Book:Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

Source: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

“I think it's not fair to the uniqueness and wonderfulness of the individuals, that we can complement one another greatly, but we are not the source of each other's happiness, especially if you don't know who the hell you're talking to.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Individual Talking Hell Source Fairs Uniqueness Not Fair Complement

Author:Chris Pine

“To avoid a future of war, crime, and bankruptcy, the individual must begin to plan his own destiny, and the best source for the necessary information comes down to us through the writings of the ancients. The greatest knowledge of all time should be available ... in a book that would be a monument, not merely a coffin.”

Should Writing Book War Would Be Individual Destiny Plans Crime Information Source Available All Time Monument Bankruptcy Coffins War Crimes

Author:Manly Hall

“Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.”

Use Political Individual Difficult Cases Rights Impossible Information Source Citizens Intelligent Objectives Conclusion Capitalist Political Rights

Book:The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn't belong to anybody. The greatness is in constantly giving back, coming to an acknowledgment of the source. Look back to the source of any individual, any process, any set of materials. If the individual personality can relinquish its insistence on concepts like this is mine, I did it, this is original, nobody else has done it, it goes straight for greatness or the essential spirit.”

“If the resources of different nations are treated as exclusive properties of these nations as wholes, if international economic relations, instead of being relations between individuals, become increasingly relations between whole nations organized as trading bodies, they inevitably become the source of friction and envy between whole nations.”

Ifs Different Whole Body Individual Nations Economic Source Resources Relation Property International Envy Treated Organized Trading Exclusive Friction

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.”

World Individual Fiction Company Identity Source Bigger Storytelling Make Sense Dramatic Afghanistan Something Bigger Than Yourself

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“I do not know how the affair at Canterbury is generally considered; but I have heard individuals of all parties and all opinions speak of it and never without merriment or indignation. Fifty years hence, the black laws of Connecticut will be a greater source of amusement to the antiquarian, than her famous blue laws.”

Knows Years Law Individual Speak Black Party Opinion Know How Greater Heard Source Blue Affair Fifty Amusement Indignation Connecticut Merriment Canterbury

Author:Lydia M. Child

“For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question "Who am I?" recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: "Since I do not understand 'Who I am,' I only know what I am not." The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate. The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.”

“While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences of the resulting increased pollution. The poor continue to live in greatest proximity to the sources of pollution, the infrastructure and machinery of industry. They work in the most polluted and physically dangerous workplaces. And these same individuals, living and working closest to the sources of environmental catastrophe, are also the ones most lacking decent health care.”

“"Free markets" is a very general term. There are all sorts of problems that will emerge. Free markets work best when the transaction between two individuals affects only those individuals. Most often, a transaction between you and me affects a third party. That is the source of all problems for government. That is the source of all pollution problems, of the inequality problem. This reality ensures that the end of history will never come.”

Two Ends Problem Reality Government Individual Term Party Source Thirds Inequality Pollution Free Market Transactions Third Parties Between You And Me

Author:Milton Friedman

“Even though it's important for all of us to change our light bulbs and the vehicles we drive, it's much more important to change our laws and policies. I drive a hybrid and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else. But putting the burden on individuals to solve this global crisis is ultimately not going to be the most effective way to solve it.”

Way Important Light Law Individual Policy Changed Source Window Crisis Burden Solve Heat Vehicle Pumps Hybrid Bulbs Light Bulb Solar Panels Geothermal

Author:Al Gore

“It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.”

Certain Individual Nations Wealth Produce Source Taxes Resources Increase Institutions Property Riches Contrary Ruins Goods Despotism Preventing Depriving

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security."”

“Thomas Jefferson went through the New Testament and removed all the miracles, leaving only the teachings. Take a source, extract what appeals to you, discard the rest. Such an act of editorship is bound to reflect something of the individual doing the editing: a plaster cast of an aesthetic-not the actual thing, but the imprint of it.”

Individual Teaching Source Miracle Bounds Leaving Casts Appeals Aesthetic Editing Testament New Testament Plasters

Book:Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

Source: Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

“It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness, yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter to this assumption.”

Ifs Humans Kind Seems Running Individual Creative Source Chiefs Intimate Assumption Human Happiness Interpersonal Interpersonal Relationship

Book:Solitude a Return to the Self

Source: Solitude a Return to the Self

“We must remove government's smothering hand from where it does harm; we must seek to revitalize the proper functions of government. We do these things to set loose again the energy and the ingenuity of the American people. We do these things to reinvigorate those social and economic institutions which serve as a buffer and a bridge between the individual and the state - and which remain the real source of our progress as a people.”

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Book:Speaking my mind: selected speeches

Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches

“I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.”

Different Individual Levels Consciousness Support Source Statements Dogmatic Different Levels Appropriateness

Author:Eyvind Kang

“Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory, to the purely secular moral sentiment and interpersonal reaction theories of Smith and Hume, to Kant's attempt to restore command theory but with something supersensible in the individual rather than God as the source of authority.”

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Author:Catherine Wilson

“WikiLeaks has been publishing for ten years, and in those ten years, we have published ten million documents, several thousand individual publications, several thousand different sources, and we have never got it wrong.”

Years Has Beens Different Individual Millions Source Thousand Ten Publishing Documents Publication Wikileaks

Author:Julian Assange

“There have been so many individuals who have really put a lot on the line. That they've sacrificed so much to try to protect the principle of source protection in the journalism world. And I think Julian Assange, and WikiLeaks, and Sarah Harrison have really been extraordinary in standing up for that.”

Thinking World Trying Has Beens Individual Lines Principles Source Protect Standing Extraordinary Protection Journalism Wikileaks Assange

Author:Edward Snowden

“Don't assume that the way that one searches and researches is the same from one era to another - it isn't. In the 19th century, most research was done by amateurs: either individuals who were rich or individuals who had a day job. In the 20th century, most researchers worked at universities or think tanks and received money from the government or from foundations to pursue their work. In our time, the sources of support and the locations for research may be quite different.”

“Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.”

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Author:Tim O'Reilly

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