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Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.”

Giving Individual Study

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.”

Facts Suffering Individual

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Leonard Cohen

Singer-Songwriter

“A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.”

Community Individual

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Philosopher, Writer, Composer

“Base souls have no faith in great individuals.”

Soul Faith

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Leona Lewis

Singer-songwriter

“I am definitely an individual.”

Individual

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher, Writer

“An individual chooses and makes himself.”

Individual

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.”

Science Individual

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.”

Opinion Individual Conception

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Friedrich Schiller

Playwright, Poet

“Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.”

Character Self Individual

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.”

Unique Individual Tolerance

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.”

Individual Faults Friends

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.”

Individual Certain Faults

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