#dual

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power. ↗

— Jerry Rubin

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Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this. ↗

— Mercedes Ruehl

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If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence. ↗

— Jane Rule

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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

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