#individual

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

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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

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

— George Washington

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With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#everyone #goals #individual #making #musicians

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

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

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

— Kit Williams

#consuming #each #every #i #individual

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

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