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Monday, 12 May 2008
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"We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a program would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators." (Chamberlain, Neville - Agreement)

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Browse Quotations about Individuality

A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
Be yourself, who else is better qualified?
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.


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