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Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.
Joyce Meyer

Life, Truth, Face

One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk.
Ron Fournier

Government, Strong, American

A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.
Carly Fiorina

Sometimes, Off, Motives

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
Twyla Tharp

Power, Few, Inspired

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Best, Society, Problem

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Real, Value, Discover

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.
Jaron Lanier

Deep, Human, Problem

The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.
Dennis Prager

Giving, Control, American

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Thought, Rights, Talking

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.
Knute Rockne

Work, Best, Play

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.
Herbert Read

Society, Single, Body

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.
Eliot Spitzer

Politics, Long, Ideas

Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.
Joyce Carol Oates

Work, Negative, Wonderful

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
Orson Scott Card

God, Stupid, Free

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
Erica Jong

Women, Parenting, Why

As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.
Rahm Emanuel

Good, Lives, Lord

I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.
Sonia Sotomayor

Government, Forget, Real

No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.
Sonia Sotomayor

Matter, Violence, Whether

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.
Al Gore

Political, Play, Process

One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.
Nick Clegg

Politics, Insecure, Become

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
Jonathan Sacks

Change, Cannot, Another

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.
Jonathan Sacks

History, Moral, Grow

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.
Robert Duvall

God, Lives, Holy

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.
Joshua Lederberg

Able, Rage, Depends

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.
John Sununu

Children, Real, Leave

You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.
Neale Donald Walsch

Find, Difficult, Group

I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
Daisaku Ikeda

History, Knowledge, Human

At the end of the day, though, the band members have to be strong. It's down to the individuals in the unit. Listen to me, I'm talking like I'm in the army and this is my squadron.
Shirley Manson

Strong, End, Down

The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.
Ian Somerhalder

Change, Together, Through

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
Barbara Jordan

Decision, Law, American

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