#individuals

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare. ↗

— Friedrich List

#around #common #everywhere #exertions #individuals

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend. ↗

— Darrell Issa

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It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals. ↗

— DeForest Kelley

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The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

#country #financial #individuals #interests #looking

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this. ↗

— Mercedes Ruehl

#chooses #individuals #nature #transgender #who

Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#bipartisan #congressional #delegation #detained #detention

Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace. ↗

— Marjorie Watts

#c-a-dawson-scott #communities #humanity #individuals #international-relations

It was probably not so unusual to be a different person with a different man, for all parts were authentically within, waiting to be coaxed out by one person or another ↗

— Anita Shreve

#love #relationships #love

I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#diversity #eliminating #good #good way #i