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“America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression; our notorious violence is the constant eruption of primi-tiveness, of anarchic individualism.”
Camille Paglia
America
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Violence
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Nature
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Society
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Individualism
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“The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.”
Herbert Spencer
Happiness
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Society
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Individualism
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Balance
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Life
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“The more readily we make household names and the more numerous they become, the less are they worthy of our admiration... We can make a celebrity, but we can never make a hero. In a now-almost-forgotten sense, all heroes are self-made.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
Celebrity
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Heroism
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Admiration
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Society
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Individualism
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“The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.”
Herbert Hoover
Freedom
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Liberalism
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Individualism
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Society
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Governance
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“Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher purposes of individualism must find their sustenance.”
Herbert Hoover
Society
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Economy
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Individualism
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Progress
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Inspiration
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“Our individualism is rooted in our very nature. It is based on conviction born of experience. Equal opportunity, the demand for a fair chance, became the formula of American Individualism because it is the method of American achievement.”
Herbert Hoover
Individualism
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Opportunity
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Experience
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Conviction
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American Achievement
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“Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.”
Stendhal
Selfishness
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Life
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Reality
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Individualism
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Struggle
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“She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.”
Emile Zola
Cold
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Self-Love
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Passion
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Virtuous
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Individualism
9.
“How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!”
Moliere
Perspective
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Perception
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Bias
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Individualism
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Society
10.
“Each bird must sing with his own throat.”
Henrik Ibsen
Individualism
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Freedom
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Nature
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Purpose
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Identity
11.
“Let others emulate the eagle’s flight, Life in the lowly plains may be as bright.”
Henrik Ibsen
Individualism
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Simplicity
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Perspective
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Happiness
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Nature
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“Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.”
Henrik Ibsen
Nature
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Individualism
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Purpose
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Identity
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Freedom
13.
“A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.”
Henrik Ibsen
Majority
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Truth
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Society
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Rebellion
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Individualism
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“What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?”
Henrik Ibsen
Loneliness
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Companionship
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Reflection
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Philosophy
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Individualism
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“A scientific man must live in a little bit of style.”
Henrik Ibsen
Science
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Knowledge
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Individualism
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Society
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Expression
16.
“A forest bird never wants a cage.”
Henrik Ibsen
Freedom
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Nature
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Individualism
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Rebellion
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Independence
17.
“It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life.”
Henrik Ibsen
Rebellion
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Happiness
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Freedom
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Individualism
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Desire
18.
“Everyone’s in their own personal coma.”
Chuck Palahniuk
Isolation
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Society
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Coma
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Individualism
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Life
19.
“Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.”
Karl Marx
Community
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Personal Freedom
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Individualism
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Growth
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Society
20.
“If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.”
Karl Marx
Marxism
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Philosophy
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Certainty
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Individualism
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Ideology
21.
“Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.”
Henry Kissinger
Leadership
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Individualism
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Success
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Heroism
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Recognition
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“In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.”
Baruch Spinoza
Nature
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Ethics
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Morality
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Individualism
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Consequence
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“Duty is not collective; it is personal.”
Calvin Coolidge
Duty
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Responsibility
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Ethics
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Individualism
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Accountability
24.
“Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.”
Calvin Coolidge
Rights
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Ownership
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Freedom
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Individualism
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Legal Protection
25.
“I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.”
Will Rogers
Democrat
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Party
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Politics
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Individualism
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Humor
26.
“The pursuit of full humanity, however, cannot be carried out in isolation or individualism, but only in fellowship and solidarity.”
Paulo Freire
Humanity
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Fellowship
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Solidarity
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Isolation
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Individualism
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“No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from beings so. Attempting to be more human, individually, leads to having more, egotistical, a form of dehumanization.”
Paulo Freire
Humanity
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Morality
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Individualism
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Ethical Thinking
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Social Responsibility
28.
“I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Self-reflection
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Writing
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Personal Philosophy
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Montaigne
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Individualism
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“I do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think at all. It is only those who have not thought that appear to agree.”
Thomas Paine
Belief
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Doctrine
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Individualism
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Observation
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Critique
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“I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.”
Jonathan Swift
Individualism
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Critique
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Relationships
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Society
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Observation
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