#dual

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. ↗

#american #emphasis #individuality #like #painting

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#biography #body #individual #island #joins

People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#encyclopedia #free #general #hard #hate

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#democracy #dullness #failure #general #general welfare

I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

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You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#agreeing #agreement #collective #difficult #find

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change. ↗

— An Wang

#choose #companies #compete #individuals #markets

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals. ↗

— George Washington

#consent #individuals #laws #made #must

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#faith #family #hard #hard work #important

Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility. ↗