#individual

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Esther Williams

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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

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We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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