For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.
quote by Georg Simmel
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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
quote by Saul Alinsky
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We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.
quote by Lyn Nofziger
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Of the laws of nature on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasures. This is no doubt the primary cause of government; for if nature had produced spontaneously all the objects which we desire, and in sufficient abundance for the desires of all, there would have been no source of dispute or of injury among men, nor would any man have possessed the means of ever acquiring authority over another. The results are exceedingly different when nature produces the objects of desire not in sufficient abundance for all. The source of dispute is then exhaustless, and every man has the means of acquiring authority over others in proportion to the quantity of those objects which he is able to possess. In this case the end to be obtained through government as the means, is to make that distribution of the scanty materials of happiness which would insure the greatest sum of it in the members of the community taken altogether, preventing every individual or combination of individuals from interfering with that distribution or making any man to have less than his share.
quote by James Mil
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Everything together
Everything together
There is answer for every question
One needs to introspect and clearly mention
What he or she wants with desires
Then question comes to reject or admire
You were not sincere in your attempt or try
You were ignorant and repeatedly asked why
It irritated me a lot and I decided to leave
There after took and heavy breathe and sigh
You love was one sided and full of infatuation
Love can’t build on that base or relation
It is give and take, and demands full of sacrifice
Life is not just trade but full of commitment and promises
Heart is broken or felt hurt when it has some feelings
One sided attachment can’t be called any kind of willingness
It is misjudged attraction and demands severance
That relation must end without question at once
Love can’t be termed as genuine or enough
One can’t be indifferent or can keep it dry or rough
It is just bond that takes life course further
Swim or sink, joy or pain is shared equally and together
poem by Hasmukh Amathalal
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Through the myth it creates, propaganda imposes a complete range of intuitive knowledge, susceptible of only one interpretation, unique and one-sided, and precluding any divergence. This myth becomes so powerful that it invades every arena of consciousness, leaving no faculty or motivation intact. It stimulates in the individual a feeling of exclusiveness, and produces a biased attitude.
quote by Jacques Ellul
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Morning Thoughts
a true education
reveals the sameness
in the human condition.
a free society
allows the individual
to be individual.
a real community
is as responsible
for the least as for
the most...
the concept of freedom
becomes a reality
when based in mutual respect.
equality demands
equal effort!
how hard is this
for us to understand?
poem by Eric Cockrell
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But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.
quote by Roger Sessions
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But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.
quote by Herbert Read
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It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.
quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition.
quote by Gilbert Newton Lewis
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Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
quote by Maxwell Maltz
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A One-Sided Love Affair
It was in-between the dances
I saw her from afar.
Hair streaks of gold
dancing on her shoulders
whenever she laughed.
I stood there hypnotised,
captured in the blue pools
that were her eyes.
She did not notice me,
and my vacant stare.
I was just another face
in a hall full of faces.
My aura did not glow
so how would she know
she had captured my heart.
Even if I had smiled,
she still would not
have seen me standing there.
The attraction was one-sided,
a one-sided love affair.
12 March 2011
poem by David Harris
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses.
quote by Gustav Stresemann
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One-side too nourishes
Meera’s love, Andal’s love
All for Lord Krishna,
They so proclaimed.
The world acclaimed.
Their love is one sided.
In his love for her,
Which is an one sided,
The object is real.
The idol has senses.
Why is this act spurned?
13.10.99
[Meera and Andal Indian women who throughout their life loved and worshiped the idol, Krishan]
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Only Male
Only male is taken into account
Whenever some rape case is found
Entire blame is passed on individual
Where as it can be with willingness and mutual
No one can say it is lust
It us human necessasity and must
How you feel hunger at fixed interval
When food is denied on arrival
It is natural phenomena and thus can be claimed
Not man alone but woman to must be blamed
Sound can be heard if clapped with two the hands
Otherwise this had been from the ages with same trend
No one can deny its existence
Even seers couldn't stop its insistence
We all knew it from our old tradition
How sacred is called the relation!
Sex and intercourse are defined as one and same
One is culmination of desire and subjected to blame
Both the actions are not one sided
Even though opinion may be divided
Let us give mutual weightage
As it is coming out of age
One may go for it when it demands
Where as it needs reasonable stand
It can be left to interpretation
One and only one performed with excitation
It takes place when bond is converted into relation
Only to feel in private domain with clear indication
poem by Hasmukh Amathalal
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There Is No Such Thing As An Individual
She looked at me
and asked.
'What is your answer? '
I was startled
and caught up short.
Simple question.
But I did not know
what the answer was.
'Who am I'?
I blurted out
vying for time;
I gave her my name
narrowing it to the millions
of Jim Jones in the world.
But am I my name?
She said
What else.?
'I am Hedi's Father
and Lisa's husband'
but before this response rolled away
into silence
I knew it wasn't enough.
So who else?
'I like hockey' I said
and knew even this
fell short.
How do I single out
the Me among millions?
What could I say
without out offering
fingerprints or DNA?
What would you say?
Maybe I should have given her
an address.
Only I live there.
But my address
is not my essence.
So who
in fact
is the I-
the me,
that I see-
as individual
and precious?
I really didn't
at that point
have an answer.
What about achievements?
.
How many individuals have
my job
and my name?
Fewer still.
This at least narrows it.
But then
the thought came;
I am not an individual.
I am the Me that
has a family and a history
a genealogy;
only me
has that.
I am not an individual
but a person
who can be identified
in the web of relationships
which surround me;
have surrounded me;
which in the end
have defined me.
I am not an individual.
I am all the people who
have influenced me-
nurtured me been kind to me or hurtful.
So there is then
this myth of the individual
which is not so.
But if this is not true
is it not so that much
of society and indeed Democracy itself
is premised
on the creating the conditions
for individual expression;
individual growth?
Is this premise correct
and the individual lives;
or is it that more real
is society and social relationships.?
So which is which?
But then again, one cannot touch society.
Confusing no?
poem by Lonnie Hicks
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One-sided Love Affair
(words & music by bill campbell)
If you want to be loved,
Baby, youve got to love me, too.
If you want to be loved,
Baby, youve got to love me, too.
Oh yeah, cause I aint for no one-sided love affair.
If you wanna be kissed,
Well, youve gotta kiss me, too.
Oh yeah, if you wanna be kissed,
Well, you gotta kiss me, too.
cause I aint for no one-sided love affair.
Well, fair exchange bears no robbery,
And the whole world will know that its true.
Understanding solves all problems, baby,
Thats why Im telling you
If you wanna be hugged,
Well, you gotta hug me, too.
Oh yeah, if you wanna be hugged,
Well, youve gotta hug me, too.
Yeah, cause I aint for no one-sided love affair.
If you know you cant take it,
Baby, why try to give it?
If you know you cant take it,
Then baby, why try to give it?
cause I aint for no one-sided love affair.
Well, fair exchange bears no robbery,
And the whole world will know that its true.
Understanding solves all problems, baby,
Thats why Im telling you
If you wanna be hugged,
Well, you gotta hug me, too.
Oh yeah, if you wanna be hugged,
Baby, you gotta hug me, too.
cause I aint for no one-sided love affair.
cause I aint for no one-sided love affair.
cause I aint for no one-sided love affair.
song performed by by Elvis Presley
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