#dual

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#ambiguous #complain #entire #everyone #exactly

I don't believe in outing people. It's up to the individual, but there's nothing wrong putting the pressure on. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#i #individual #nothing #outing #people

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute. ↗

— William Pollard

#individuals #leadership #opportunity #provide #responsibility

Now as far as the organization selling drugs, no. Individuals selling drugs is something else. ↗

— Chuck Zito

#else #far #individuals #now #organization

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#creativity #individuality #courage

We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay. ↗

— George Weinberg

#case #cases #committed #committing #face

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying. ↗

— Lee J. Cobb

#facilities #government #individual #states #terrifying

Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#choice #dance #identity #individuality #life

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#human-nature #individuality #age

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. ↗

— Mark Twain

#approach #born #could #eighteen #eighty