#dual

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. ↗

— Simone Weil

#anything #because #being #concluding #contrary

Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#everyone #goals #individual #making #musicians

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#art #art world #calls #chinese #create

To the extent that people overpay as a result of the Libor manipulation, they should be able to get their money back. Individuals who have mortgages, pension funds who had pensioner investments - whoever was ripped off is entitled to get their money back. ↗

— Peter Welch

#back #entitled #extent #funds #get

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business. ↗

— Allen West

#business #corporate #flat #flat tax #i

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves. ↗

— Kim Weston

#endeavors #fulfilling #individuals #make #need

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#attracted #effort #i #i am #individual

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter. ↗

— Shaun White

#greater #individual #longer #matter #olympian

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#individual #single #single individual #theory #universe

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#individualism #intense #known #mode #most