#individual

I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity. ↗

— George Gallup

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I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#animal #collectivism #envisage #i #individualism

There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#anything #christ #done #doubt #god

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#business #degrading #everything #family #individual

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#believe #both #creates #guns #hunting

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#among #because #collective #creates #democratic

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#conversation #disciplined #distressed #engaging #fellow

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#born #developed #field #geniuses #grasses

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#individuals #know #others #representatives #see

I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#essential #handle #i #i think #individually