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Letter "I" » individuals
«Reason only controls individuals after emotion and impulse have lost their impetus»
Author: Carlton Simon
| About:
Reason
| Keywords:
controls, emotion, impetus, impulse, individuals, Lose Control
«Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it.»
Author: Phillip Hauge Abelson
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
attract, Creation, creation science, individuals, science, tended, tended to, The Creation
«Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
common law, consent, individuals, trampled, Tramples, trampling
«The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
aim, as many, breed, citizenry, dissent, dissenting, dissents, enlightenment, individuals, level, originality, public, public education, put down, reduce, safe, spread, standard, the Enlightenment
«The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
general, humanity, individuals, possession, property, the Earth, The General
«Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Individuality,
Reality,
Society
| Keywords:
are, concept, exists, Get Real, individuals, In the, mental, only, Other Worlds, Out of This World, real, Real Me, real world, society, take over the world, their world, there, There are, There exist, The Other World, The Real World, the world to come, world
«The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength /each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| Keywords:
asking, curse, deceptive, desiring, disinterestedly, find oneself, gaining, individuals, joined, plenitude, seeks, self-seeking, transcend, unable, warmth, wrapped, wrapped up
«I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Mankind,
Society
| Keywords:
happier, Human history, individuals, individual differences, periods, rarely, such as
«So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
example, governments, individuals, kill, killing, killings, occasionally, private, so long
«That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
governments, individuals, individual differences
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