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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mistake, Universal, Symbol

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth

Success, Greatest, May

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom, Government, Democracy

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
Thomas S. Monson

Integrity, Test, Perhaps

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
Earl Nightingale

Job, Career, Remember

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Character, Long

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
Elbert Hubbard

True, May, Dream

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Vince Lombardi

Effort, Results, Combined

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.
Steve Jobs

Experience, Job, Down

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
Vince Lombardi

Another, Loved, Green

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken

Wisdom, Ignorance, Democracy

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.
Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Help, Important

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve

Strength, Hero, Obstacles

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King

Work, Successful, Hard

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce

Profit, Device, Ingenious

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Thomas Merton

Life, Person, Find

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.
Barack Obama

Best, Job, Tough

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
Marcus Garvey

Life, Success, Why

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
Ron Paul

Freedom, Government, Nothing

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Mia Hamm

Sacrifice, Team, Champion

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Anais Nin

Life, Book, Person

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.
George Washington Carver

Him, Through, Leaving

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
Barack Obama

Money, Government, Together

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Become, Treat, Ought

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill

War, Desire, Advantage

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.
Mitt Romney

Freedom, Government, Successful

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Charlie Chaplin

Great, Men, Idiot

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
M. Scott Peck

Change, Good, History

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
Ray Bradbury

Politics, Hate, Political

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