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In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic. ↗

— George Carlin

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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. ↗

— Bernard M. Baruch

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From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice. ↗

— David Baker

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The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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