The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
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Those that are good manners at thecourt are as ridiculed in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable atthe court.
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The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity.
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There is no ache more deadly than the striving to be oneself.
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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes).
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I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
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There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout: <br/>This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me.. Or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.<br/>When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.
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I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality. I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say.. In paint.
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Dont ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
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Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms
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Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.
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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence
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If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilization, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a nec
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It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual
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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers
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If nominated, I will not accept; if drafted, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and progress, everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.
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We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails.
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Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.
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