Individuality

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"The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Method of Nature

"We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays

"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free." - CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, speech (1925)

"The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone." - HENRIK IBSEN, An Enemy of the People

"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called." - JOHN STUART MILL, On Liberty

"There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays

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