#individual

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

— Oscar Wilde

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An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius. ↗

— Billy Wilder

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I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them. ↗

— Lenny Wilkens

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. ↗

— George Will

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

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