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1 " Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love. "
― Criss Jami , Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
2 " The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible "
― William S. Burroughs
3 " I would rather die an individual than live my life as a clone. "
― Kent Marrero
4 " A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction. "
― Bill Gaede
5 " Almost all accidents and injuries happen when an individual is not being present and not paying attention to what they are doing. "
― Tobe Hanson , The Four Seasons Way of Life:: Ancient Wisdom for Healing and Personal Growth
6 " It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in such a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not always wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'. "
― Criss Jami , Killosophy
7 " In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity. "
8 " Religious faith is by nature the most fundamental set of beliefs that one can have. It is how a believer views the world, and is how the believer judges himself as well as the other people, things, and events in that world. It colors everything about them. It is for this reason that people who adopt a faith out of convenience appear so phony, and why it is simply not possible for an individual to have a " religion d'jour. "
9 " If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. "
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
10 " The novel was born with the Modern Era, which made man, to quote Heidegger, the " only real subject," the ground for everything. It is largely through the novel that man as an individual was established on the European scene. Away from the novel, in our real lives, we know very little about our parents as they were before our birth; we have only fragmentary knowledge of the people close to us: we see them come and go and scarcely have they vanished than their place is taken over by others: they form a long line of replaceable beings. Only the novel separates out an individual, trains a light on his biography, his ideas, his feelings, makes him irreplaceable: makes him the center of everything. "
11 " Whatever it is in life that is worth attaining, there must be something that is provoking an individual to go for that thing passionately. "
― , The Mountain of Ignorance
12 " A team succeeds where an individual fails. "
― Rajen Jani , Once Upon A Time: 100 Management Stories
13 " Often, exactly big complexes force an individual to achieve their big goals and massive success. "
― Sahara Sanders
14 " A calamity can horrify an individual who is obsessed about life destruction and that particular individual could not indulge the beauty of living for the rest of his or her natural life. "
15 " Life can be full of despair without intimacy from a youth's family members and they need to understand that values of caring can help an individual to overcome his or her struggle as he or she develops to become an adult. "
― Saaif Alam
16 " To carefully listen is a powerful way of saying to another that we value that person. When we take the time to understand we communicate that we care, we want to understand, we respect their expression, we give dignity and an individual sense of worth. Communication lies more in feeling than in words. "
― Stephen R. Covey
17 " Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. "
― Ann Landers
18 " You can’t say you love man as an individual if you have not dealt with the person’s complex personality, his or her unfamiliar habits, disturbing impulses and biological makeup. "
19 " There's no science that can't be used for good or for evil. Science could be used by whoever has the power to use it and desire to use it. If you make people knowledgeable about these sciences and don't point out this fact, then you're saying, I withdraw from the battle, from the discussion of the ethics involved. I just stick to the facts. And that of course means that you've surrendered to the strongest forces. You say you're neutral in what you do, you aren't that concerned with it. If the Pentagon is using your discoveries, that's not your problem. It's unavoidable that you have some responsibility, it seems to me, regardless of what you teach or what your subject is or what your skill is. Whatever you have to contribute has a social dimension. And I think it's ineffective to try to impose that on anybody. Sharing it with them is one thing, but trying to impose it is another. You honestly say these are my ideas and I have a right to my opinion, and if I have a right to my opinion then you have a right to your opinion." You can't have an individual right. It has to be a universal right. I have no rights that everybody else doesn't have. There's no right I could claim that anybody else in the world can't claim, and I have to fight for their exercising that right just like I have to fight for my own. That doesn't mean I have to impose my ideas on people, but it means I have a responsibility to provide whatever light I can on the subject and share my ideas with people. "
20 " For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care of, so that it may survive for a longer period. "
― Anurag Shourie , Half A Shadow