#dual

So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race. ↗

— Arthur Cayley

#evolution #individual #may #meeting #much

I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#being #chinese #controlled #feel #gradually

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#brutish #form #genius #goes #great

I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual. ↗

— Dennis Chavez

#freedom #i #individual #like #limitations

Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#boys and girls #consider #decide #did #different

My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run. ↗

— Dennis Conner

#consistent #flashy #goal #individual #just

You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals. ↗

— Chris Cooper

#change #day #day to day #days #dealing

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. ↗

— Richard Courant

#aesthetic #analysis #basic #basic elements #construction

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps. ↗

— Wes Craven

#deal #films #horror #horror films #individual

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#competing #contact #cultural #elsewhere #faster