#dual

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

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#exists #individuals #mental #only #real

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#critical #dark #genius #imbecile #imbeciles

I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them. ↗

— Lenny Wilkens

#floor #got #had #hard #i

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. ↗

— George Will

#emancipation #his #individual #passions #politics

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things. ↗

— Esther Williams

#different #different things #expects #healthy #individual

I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species. ↗

— George C. Williams

#assumption #book #characterizes #criticism #directed

I made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming. ↗

— Kit Williams

#consuming #each #every #i #individual