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"I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."
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mankind
love
individuals
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.
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individuality
individuals
self
uniqueness
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Charles Taylor |
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There is a certain way of being human that is way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for .
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life
individuals
self
uniqueness
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Charles Taylor |
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The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.
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individuals
singularity
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Haruki Murakami |
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Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free-trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation. They have no genius or talent for comparatively humble questions of taxation and finance, commerce and manufacturers and agriculture. Nuestros legisladores no han aprendido todavia el valor comparativo del libre cambio y la libertad, la union y la rectitud hacia la nacion. No tienen genio ni talento para hacerse preguntas humildes sobre impuestos y finanzas, comercio, manufactura y agricultura.
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legislators
congress
individuals
liberalism
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Henry David Thoreau |
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The state does not oppose the freedom of people to express their particular cultural attachments, but nor does it nurture such expression--rather [...] it responds with 'benign neglect' [....] The members of ethnic and national groups are protected against discrimination and prejudice, and they are free to maintain whatever part of their ethnic heritage or identity they wish, consistent with the rights of others. But their efforts are purely private, and it is not the place of public agencies to attach legal identities or disabilities to cultural membership or ethnic identity. This separation of state and ethnicity precludes any legal or governmental recognition of ethnic groups, or any use of ethnic criteria in the distribution of rights, resources, and duties.
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prejudice
liberties
neutrality
states
individuals
nations
ethnicity
multiculturalism
liberalism
discrimination
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Will Kymlicka |
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Generalization is a natural human mental process, and many generalizations are true--in average. What often does promote evil behavior is the lazy, nasty habit of believing that generalizations have anything at all to do with individuals.
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stereotypes
generalizations
individual
individuals
evil
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David Brin |
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"I kept remembering something Michael Fertik had said to me at the Village Pub in Woodside. 'The biggest lie,' he said, 'is "The Internet is about you." We like to think of ourselves as people who have choice and taste and personalized content. But the Internet isn't about us. It's about the companies that dominate the data flows of the Internet."
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individuals
internet
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Jon Ronson |