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#individuals

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Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.


Herbert Simon


#along #being #billion #few #get

It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.


L. Neil Smith


#effort #encouraged #human #human race #individuals

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs.


George Soros


#allow #care #designed #great #i

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.


Steven Spielberg


#crime #despicable #did #does #excuse

But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.


Joseph Stiglitz


#actions #affect #affects #amount #beliefs

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.


Thomas Sydenham


#comfort #disease #gout #humble #individuals

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 have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players.


Roger Goodell


#best interests #club #decisions #executives #i

It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.


Harry A. Blackmun


#case #choices #especially #heart #individuals

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.


Maria Mitchell


#aids #individuals #large #masses #small






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