#individuals

Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#able danger #amount #approximately #consisted #danger

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#biologically #experiments #individuals #since #species

There is history the way Tolstoy imagined it, as a great, slow-moving weather system in which even tsars and generals are just leaves before the storm. And there is history the way Hollywood imagines it, as a single story line in which the right move by the tsar or the wrong move by the general changes everything. Most of us, deep down, are probably Hollywood people. We like to invent “what if” scenarios--what if x had never happened, what if y had happened instead?--because we like to believe that individual decisions make a difference: that, if not for x, or if only there had been y, history might have plunged forever down a completely different path. Since we are agents, we have an interest in the efficacy of agency. ↗

— Louis Menand

#decisions #fate #history #individuals #predestination

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#controlling #court #fundamental #individuals #interest

Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#approbation #beholds #children #common #differently

One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a White mayor. I've never seen New Orleans as a Black city. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#been #black #city #diverse #generation

I feel that each and every one of us as individuals has a responsibility to one another. None of us would be here without the help of someone else - whether it be guardians, teachers, parents, relatives, etc. - someone contributed to your well being as a person. We're all connected in so many different ways. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#being #connected #contributed #different #different ways

You can play a particular sport as long as you take good care of your body and you're confident enough and still have that hunger to where you want to be a part of an organization, a group of individuals where you feel you can contribute to the success of that team. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#care #confident #contribute #enough #feel

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen. ↗

— Chuck Norris

#ever #i #individuals #know #miserable

There are too many countries where the values we take for granted in our civil servants simply do not exist. Seeing these values in action, applied with dedication by hardworking individuals, makes me proud to lead a service that is making life better for millions across Britain. ↗

— Gus O'Donnell

#action #applied #better #britain #civil