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Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.
Grover Norquist
Today
Politics
Alone
Government
Best
Individuals
Look
Understood
Issue
Left
American
Want
Center
Them
American Politics
Coalition
Groups
Right
Brings
The welfare state creates its own victim/client constituency. By making individuals free and independent, we reduce the need for 'charity' to those truly needy citizens what we can certainly afford to help through real charity.
Grover Norquist
Charity
Welfare
Free
Own
Needy
State
Those
Independent
Citizens
Through
Individuals
Welfare State
Making
Reduce
Real
Truly
Afford
Creates
Certainly
Help
Need
Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.
Gustav Stresemann
War
Lost
Nothing
State
See
More
Colonization
Individuals
Participation
Most
Territories
Frequently
Overlook
Still
Loss
Historians
End
Germany
Than
Often
Meaning
Serious
Suffered
Assets
We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.
Guy Ritchie
Work
Together
Humble
Relationships
Eating
About
Volatile
Individuals
Pie
Quite
Exponentially
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. Wells
Beginning
Individuals
Since
Accumulate
Experiments
Successful
Species
Biologically
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
Hans Kung
Future
Experience
Too
Changed
Our
Unless
Distant
Earth
Following
Individuals
Alteration
Historical
Achieved
Cannot
Consciousness
The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
Harold H. Greene
Constitution
Words
Other
States
Independent
Lies
Clause
Fact
Individuals
Between
Real
Real Difference
Preamble
Branches
Beholden
Nations
Difference
Substantive
Elected
Enforced
United
United States
It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.
Harry A. Blackmun
Rights
Heart
Those
Case
Individuals
Majority
Because
Makes
Issue
Precisely
Upset
Sensitive
Choices
Should
Whose
Raised
Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.
Harry Browne
Work
Government
Good
Nature
Money
Achieve
Will
Own
Politicians
Human Nature
Earn
Others
Everything
Spending
Spending Money
Tells
About
More
Individuals
Know
Than
Human
Far
Themselves
Us
Using
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
Helen Dunmore
Individuals
Feel
Concentrate
Know
Reader
Whom
Lives
Solitary decisions, no matter how well-founded they may appear to individuals, must belong to the past - along with national, unilateralist action.
Helmut Kohl
Matter
National
Past
Action
Solitary
Must
Individuals
Along
How
May
Decisions
Appear
Belong
Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.
Herbert A. Simon
Nature
Worth
Few
Think
Ought
Our
Out
Would
Ability
Horribly
Rather
Part
Put
Individuals
Over
Along
Most
Terms
Lords
Very
Than
Get
Maybe
Being
Room
Us
Really
Stand
Billion
Unique
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
Army
Single
Society
Otherwise
Distinguished
He
Individuals
Merely
Like
Within
According
Orchestra
Common
Common Interests
Whether
Interests
Separate
Body
Groups
Function
United
Defend
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
Herbert Read
Quality
Culture
Worth
Wealth
Power
Military
Philosophers
Valued
Civilization
Poets
Individuals
Terms
Material
Material Wealth
Representative
Artists
Achievements
Military Power
Similar to computer technology in the '60s, 3-D printing is a universal technology that has the potential to revolutionize our life by enabling individuals to design and manufacture things.
Hod Lipson
Life
Technology
Design
Our
Similar
Potential
Computer
Individuals
Printing
Enabling
Revolutionize
Manufacture
Things
Universal
Truth is about propositions. When it comes to determining truth, it is vital to understand the methods used by individuals in asserting propositions.
Howard Gardner
Truth
Truth Is
Vital
About
Determining
Individuals
Understand
Methods
Used
Asserting
But the other thing is that I feel very confident in the individual pilots. They are tremendous individuals. They are individuals that have sworn to protect and defend our very citizens. That's why we serve.
Hugh Shelton
Other
Tremendous
Our
Citizens
Individual
Individuals
Feel
Protect
Pilots
Very
Confident
Why
Serve
Thing
Sworn
Defend
The Chinese began with the assumption that the group is the fundamental unit of reality. Individuals? Sure, we can factor them out from their groups, but let us not think that they as individuals have any viability apart from their group.
Huston Smith
Reality
Group
Think
Assumption
Out
Factor
Individuals
Sure
Began
Viability
Any
Apart
Chinese
Them
Us
Groups
Let Us
Unit
Fundamental
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
Iain McGilchrist
Sympathy
Our
Shakespeare
Structure
Individuals
Demanded
Stereotypes
Category
Commands
Trump
Hanged
Refuses
Unique
Play
I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.
Ira Sachs
Hope
Alone
People
Resonate
Will
Big
Way
Out
See
Some
Gives
Part
Individuals
Feel
Make
Comfort
Audience
Always
Big Screen
Screen
Movie
Story
Them
Less
Played
I have always been very proud of my Jewish heritage, which has greatly influenced my music, my world view, and my work as an advocate for individuals whom society often leaves behind.
Itzhak Perlman
Work
Music
World
Society
Heritage
Individuals
Advocate
Always
Proud
Leaves
Been
Greatly
Very
Often
Behind
Influenced
Which
View
Whom
World View
Jewish
For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.
J. Courtney Sullivan
World
Care
Girl
Feminism
Whatever
Young
Think
Totally
About
Outlets
Various
Individuals
Over
Talk
Making
Committed
Anymore
Young Girls
Reason
It's not just that government has failed us. It's not just that we have failed ourselves. It's government. It's individuals. It's sort of everything in between, from families and communities and neighborhoods, churches and so forth.
J. D. Vance
Government
Everything
Churches
Neighborhoods
Ourselves
Failed
Individuals
Between
Sort
Families
Just
In-Between
Forth
Us
Communities
Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
J. Philippe Rushton
Group
Other
Several
More
Takes
Generations
Individuals
Over
New
Frequently
Than
Reproduce
Formation
Place
Race
Themselves
Groups
Among
Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
J. Philippe Rushton
Group
Vary
Individuals
Course
Within
Greatly
Racial
Should
Each
Treated
Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.
Jack Ramsay
Together
Superior
Those
More
Beat
Individuals
Who
Teams
Play
Players
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